Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems
Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems
ISBN: 0596102461
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 237
Pages: 237
Authors: W. Curtis Preston
- Backup Recovery
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Part 1: Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Philosophy of Backup
- Section 1.1. Champagne Backup on a Beer Budget
- Section 1.2. Why Should I Read This Book?
- Section 1.3. Why Back Up?
- Section 1.4. Wax On, Wax Off: Finding a Balance
- Chapter 2. Backing It All Up
- Section 2.1. Don t Skip This Chapter
- Section 2.2. Deciding Why You Are Backing Up
- Section 2.3. Deciding What to Back Up
- Section 2.4. Deciding When to Back Up
- Section 2.5. Deciding How to Back Up
- Section 2.6. Storing Your Backups
- Section 2.7. Testing Your Backups
- Section 2.8. Monitoring Your Backups
- Section 2.9. Following Proper Development Procedures
- Section 2.10. Unrelated Miscellanea
- Section 2.11. Good Luck
- Part 2: Open-Source Backup Utilities
- Chapter 3. Basic Backup and Recovery Utilities
- Section 3.1. An Overview
- Section 3.2. Backing Up and Restoring with ntbackup
- Section 3.3. Using System Restore in Windows
- Section 3.4. Backing Up with the dump Utility
- Section 3.5. Restoring with the restore Utility
- Section 3.6. Limitations of dump and restore
- Section 3.7. Features to Check For
- Section 3.8. Backing Up and Restoring with the cpio Utility
- Section 3.9. Backing Up and Restoring with the tar Utility
- Section 3.10. Backing Up and Restoring with the dd Utility
- Section 3.11. Using rsync
- Section 3.12. Backing Up and Restoring with the ditto Utility
- Section 3.13. Comparing tar, cpio, and dump
- Section 3.14. Using ssh or rsh as a Conduit Between Systems
- Chapter 4. Amanda
- Section 4.1. Summary of Important Features
- Section 4.2. Configuring Amanda
- Section 4.3. Backing Up Clients via NFS or Samba
- Section 4.4. Amanda Recovery
- Section 4.5. Community and Support Options
- Section 4.6. Future Plans
- Chapter 5. BackupPC
- Section 5.1. BackupPC Features
- Section 5.2. How BackupPC Works
- Section 5.3. Installation How-To
- Section 5.4. Starting BackupPC
- Section 5.5. Per-Client Configuration
- Section 5.6. The BackupPC Community
- Section 5.7. The Future of BackupPC
- Chapter 6. Bacula
- Section 6.1. Bacula Architecture
- Section 6.2. Bacula Features
- Section 6.3. An Example Configuration
- Section 6.4. Advanced Features
- Section 6.5. Future Directions
- Chapter 7. Open-Source Near-CDP
- Section 7.1. rsync with Snapshots
- Section 7.2. rsnapshot
- Section 7.3. rdiff-backup
- Part 3: Commercial Backup
- Chapter 8. Commercial Backup Utilities
- Section 8.1. What to Look For
- Section 8.2. Full Support of Your Platforms
- Section 8.3. Backup of Raw Partitions
- Section 8.4. Backup of Very Large Filesystems and Files
- Section 8.5. Aggressive Requirements
- Section 8.6. Simultaneous Backup of Many Clients to One Drive
- Section 8.7. Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup
- Section 8.8. Simultaneous Backup of One Client to Many Drives
- Section 8.9. Data Requiring Special Treatment
- Section 8.10. Storage Management Features
- Section 8.11. Reduction in Network Traffic
- Section 8.12. Support of a Standard or Custom Backup Format
- Section 8.13. Ease of Administration
- Section 8.14. Security
- Section 8.15. Ease of Recovery
- Section 8.16. Protection of the Backup Index
- Section 8.17. Robustness
- Section 8.18. Automation
- Section 8.19. Volume Verification
- Section 8.20. Cost
- Section 8.21. Vendor
- Section 8.22. Final Thoughts
- Chapter 9. Backup Hardware
- Section 9.1. Decision Factors
- Section 9.2. Using Backup Hardware
- Section 9.3. Tape Drives
- Section 9.4. Optical Drives
- Section 9.5. Automated Backup Hardware
- Section 9.6. Disk Targets
- Part 4: Bare-Metal Recovery
- Chapter 10. Solaris Bare-Metal Recovery
- Section 10.1. Using Flash Archive
- Section 10.2. Preparing for an Interactive Restore
- Section 10.3. Setup of a Noninteractive Restore
- Section 10.4. Final Thoughts
- Chapter 11. Linux and Windows
- Section 11.1. How It Works
- Section 11.2. The Steps in Theory
- Section 11.3. Assumptions
- Section 11.4. Alt-Boot Full Image Method
- Section 11.5. Alt-Boot Partition Image Method
- Section 11.6. Live Method
- Section 11.7. Alt-Boot Filesystem Method
- Section 11.8. Automate Bare-Metal Recovery with G4L
- Section 11.9. Commercial Solutions
- Chapter 12. HP-UX Bare-Metal Recovery
- Section 12.1. System Recovery with Ignite-UX
- Section 12.2. Planning for Ignite-UX Archive Storage and Recovery
- Section 12.3. Implementation Example
- Section 12.4. System Cloning
- Section 12.5. Security
- Section 12.6. System Recovery and Disk Mirroring
- Chapter 13. AIX Bare-Metal Recovery
- Section 13.1. IBM s mksysb and savevg Utilities
- Section 13.2. Backing Up with mksysb
- Section 13.3. Setting Up NIM
- Section 13.4. savevg Operations
- Section 13.5. Verifying a mksysb or savevg Backup
- Section 13.6. Restoring an AIX System with mksysb
- Section 13.7. System Cloning
- Chapter 14. Mac OS X Bare-Metal Recovery
- Section 14.1. How It Works
- Section 14.2. A Sample Bare-Metal Recovery
- Part 5: Database Backup
- Chapter 15. Backing Up Databases
- Section 15.1. Can It Be Done?
- Section 15.2. Confusion: The Mysteries of Database Architecture
- Section 15.3. The Muck Stops Here: Databases in Plain English
- Section 15.4. What s the Big Deal?
- Section 15.5. Database Structure
- Section 15.6. An Overview of a Page Change
- Section 15.7. ACID Compliance
- Section 15.8. What Can Happen to an RDBMS?
- Section 15.9. Backing Up an RDBMS
- Section 15.10. Restoring an RDBMS
- Section 15.11. Documentation and Testing
- Section 15.12. Unique Database Requirements
- Chapter 16. Oracle Backup and Recovery
- Section 16.1. Two Backup Methods
- Section 16.2. Oracle Architecture
- Section 16.3. Physical Backups Without rman
- Section 16.4. Physical Backups with rman
- Section 16.5. Flashback
- Section 16.6. Managing the Archived Redo Logs
- Section 16.7. Recovering Oracle
- Section 16.8. Logical Backups
- Section 16.9. A Broken Record
- Chapter 17. Sybase Backup and Recovery
- Section 17.1. Sybase Architecture
- Section 17.2. The Power User s View
- Section 17.3. The DBA s View
- Section 17.4. Protecting Your Database
- Section 17.5. Backup Automation Through Scripting
- Section 17.6. Physical Backups with a Storage Manager
- Section 17.7. Recovering Your Database
- Section 17.8. Common Sybase Procedures
- Section 17.9. Sybase Recovery Procedure
- Chapter 18. IBM DB2 Backup and Recovery
- Section 18.1. DB2 Architecture
- Section 18.2. The backup, restore, rollforward, and recover Commands
- Section 18.3. Recovering Your Database
- Chapter 19. SQL Server
- Section 19.1. Overview of SQL Server
- Section 19.2. The Power User s View
- Section 19.3. The DBA s View
- Section 19.4. Backups
- Section 19.5. Logical (Table-Level) Backups
- Section 19.6. Restore and Recovery
- Chapter 20. Exchange
- Section 20.1. Exchange Architecture
- Section 20.2. Storage Groups
- Section 20.3. Backup
- Section 20.4. Using ntbackup to Back Up
- Section 20.5. Restore
- Section 20.6. Exchange Restore
- Chapter 21. PostgreSQL
- Section 21.1. PostgreSQL Architecture
- Section 21.2. Backup and Recovery
- Section 21.3. Point-in-Time Recovery
- Chapter 22. MySQL
- Section 22.1. MySQL Architecture
- Section 22.2. MySQL Backup and Recovery Methodologies
- Part 6: Potpourri
- Chapter 23. VMware and Miscellanea
- Section 23.1. Backing Up VMware Servers
- Section 23.2. Volatile Filesystems
- Section 23.3. Demystifying dump
- Section 23.4. How Do I Read This Volume?
- Section 23.5. Gigabit Ethernet
- Section 23.6. Disk Recovery Companies
- Section 23.7. Yesterday
- Section 23.8. Trust Me About the Backups
- Chapter 24. It s All About Data Protection
- Section 24.1. Business Reasons for Data Protection
- Section 24.2. Technical Reasons for Data Protection
- Section 24.3. Backup and Archive
- Section 24.4. What Needs to Be Backed Up?
- Section 24.5. What Needs to Be Archived?
- Section 24.6. Examples of Backup and Archive
- Section 24.7. Can Open-Source Backup Do the Job?
- Section 24.8. Disaster Recovery
- Section 24.9. Everything Starts with the Business
- Section 24.10. Storage Security
- Section 24.11. Conclusion
- Colophon
- Index
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Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems
ISBN: 0596102461
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 237
Pages: 237
Authors: W. Curtis Preston