| Overview
Unix Backup & Recovery provides a complete overview of
all facets of Unix backup and recovery, and offers practical,
affordable backup and recovery solutions for environments of all
sizes and budgets. The book begins with detailed explanations of
the native backup utilities available to the Unix administrator,
and ends with practical advice on choosing a commercial backup
utility. This book:
Describes the features, limitations, and syntax of Unix backup
and restore utilities,(including dump, tar, cpio, dd, GNUtar, and
GNUcpio) for many popular versions of Unix, including AIX, Compaq
Unix, HP-UX, IRIX, SCO, Solaris, and Linux Provides instructions for installing and configuring freely
available backup systems such as AMANDA Includes ready-to-run shell scripts that automate live backups
of Informix, Oracle, and Sybase databases Presents step-by-step recovery procedures for Oracle, Informix,
and Sybase Presents step-by-step "bare-metal" disaster recovery procedures
for AIX, Compaq Unix, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, and Linux Describes the design of "disaster recovery" and "highly
available" systems Provides guidance on choosing a commercial backup and recovery
system Describes the features and limitations of backup hardware
Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionThis guide for Unix administrators features a complete overview of all facets of Unix backup and recovery and offers practical, affordable solutions for environments of all sizes and budgets. It begins with detailed explanations of the native backup utilities available and ends with practical advice on choosing a commercial backup utility. An invaluable book for administrators, Unix Backup & Recovery covers: - Provides guidance on the features, limitations, and syntax of Unix backup and recovery utilities; describes the installation and use of freely-available backup utilities and commercial backup systems; presents the features and limitations of backup hardware; and offers step-by-step backup and recovery procedures for Informix, Oracle, and Sybase databases.
| Amazon.com ReviewThe Unix file system is reliable and very well-suited to mission-critical applications in which maximum uptime is key. But it's not flawless, and that's where Unix Backup & Recovery comes in. This book details dozens of strategies for keeping Unix systems online. The strategies range from good administration practices that minimize problems to hot-restore techniques that allow you to recover from breaks as seamlessly as possible. The book also contains absolutely inclusive archive techniques that allow you to restore huge databases and file systems from backup media. Unix Backup & Recovery includes a lot of general "recommended practices" advice and lots of scary stories about lost files (and more than a few about heroic system administrators who saved the day, or at least the data). But it gets down to brass tacks too, documenting lots of backup and recovery tools that can make the administrator's job much easier when they're used properly (including cpio, tar, and AMANDA). Coverage of specific systems' backup and recovery issues (including those of Solaris, HP-UX, Oracle, Sybase, and Informix) are invaluable, as is the coverage of techniques for extracting information from ancient, obsolete backup media. The point: read this book before you have a disaster, so you can do everything required to head one off and be ready to deal with problems when they happen. --David Wall Topics covered: Strategies for protecting the contents and availability of Unix systems, particularly those running Solaris, Linux, Compaq True-64 Unix, HP-UX, IRIX, and AIX. Coverage also includes backup and recovery software (free and commercial), and the mechanics of protecting and fixing large database management systems. There's also a lot of advice on defensive administration, backup hardware, and obsolete media. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 16 reviews. Best book on BR, 2007-03-09 Reviewer rating: This book is important for System Administrators and DBAs. The book is well-written and have discussed all the major UNIX flavors back and recovery. The author went further by discussing the Backup and Recovery of major databases on these UNIX operating systems.
I give 5 stars. | Definitive guide to Backups, 2005-06-29 Reviewer rating: As a former Unix system administrator, this book proved invaluable to me. Backups are a dreaded responsibility for most as they are not glamorous, but when a backup is needed, the administrator can become a hero or out of a job very quickly depending on thier backups. The author provides some deep insight into the art of backups, drawing upon real world examples that provide insight into the recommendations. The authors quips on real world backup stories is worth the price alone as there is great knowledge to be gained from someone else's mistakes and failures. Truly a gem that should be on EVERY system administrators bookshelf. | disappointing, 2005-01-25 Reviewer rating: This is the first of the O'Reilly books I have been disappointed in. I bought the book for one reason-- to find out how to restore a / and /usr file system off a remote tape drive. Unfortunately the book does not answer this question, all of its examples assume the server has a local tape drive attached. The authors spend their time touting freebie utilities at the expense of a thourough discussion of the backup and restore capabilities that come with the operating system. | The Computer Backup Book, 2003-10-20 Reviewer rating: This is *THE* Computer System backup book. It contains all the basics of why you want to backup computer systems, plus many of the real world experience details. It is written from a Unix perspective, but is still applicable to Windows and other non-Unix environments. I've been using this book as a general guide for several years now. It was a book I watched work it's way through the O'Reilly system from first announcement to general release. I bought it when it first came out. I have not been disappointed in it. Many people think of computer system backups as a dry old musty topic of interest to nobody in particular. But 9/11 showed how important good disaster recovery planning and procedures could be to a business. Some of the specifics are now a little out of date, but not by leaps and bounds. It is still very good for its core reason for being - Backups. It is very much less out of date than other computer books on the market today. I have been dealing with large-scale computer system backups and disaster recovery for large employers for years... and I still consult this book regularly to make sure have not missed anything important. It covers all the topics you need. | I had almost no experience with *nix, 2003-06-16 Reviewer rating: Even though I was still very new to Linux/UNIX, this book was able to help me create a fully automated backup routine as well as how to restore from those backups. I found the book very easy to read and not at all dry. |
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