Backup and Recovery

Backup & Recovery: A Comprehensive Guide to Data Protection This book provides practical solutions for backing up and recovering systems using freely available utilities. It covers backup philosophy and design, explaining the basic backup tools such as tar, dump, cpio, ntbackup, ditto, and rsync. You'll also learn about open source backup products that automate backups, including AMANDA, Bacula, BackupPC, rdiff-backup, and rsnapshot. The book shows you how to perform bare metal recovery of various systems, including AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, VMWare, and Windows, using freely available utilities. Additionally, it provides overviews of the current state of commercial backup software and hardware market, including CDP, data de-duplication, D2D2T, and VTL technology. You'll also learn how to automate backups of popular databases without purchasing a commercial utility. This guide is ideal for environments of all sizes and budgets, providing a cost-effective solution for ensuring data protection. By following the practical advice in this book, you'll be able to automate your backups, perform bare metal recovery, and understand the current state of commercial backup software and hardware.