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Unix Backup and Recovery

By W. Curtis Preston
First Edition  November 1999 
Pages: 734
ISBN 10: 1-56592-642-0 | ISBN 13: 9781565926424
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This guide 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. It explains everything from freely available backup systems to large-scale commercial utilities.
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Unix Backup & Recovery Review,  November 21 1999
Submitted by John T. Willis   [Respond | View]



This is a good read. I found the depth of
the database chapters especially interesting.
It's a big book, but covers the territory very
well.

It's about the same size as
"Essential System Administration" and truly
belongs on any book shelf that already has
a copy of that book. This book 'earns' its
blue cover.

He covers the five most popular OS'es including
Linux! And he covers bare-metal recovery.. how
many times have you wondered what to do with those
backup tapes after a crash?

I especially enjoyed the "how we got here"
mini-history lessons about the tools and why
there is so much duplication.

I'm extermely glad this book came out when it
did, it steered me clear of several bad choices
based on marketing material and a lack of
concrete information from vendors.




Unix Backup & Recovery Review,  August 06 1999
Submitted by Robert Fisher   [Respond | View]



I've heard it often enough that the principle
virtue of a System Administrator is laziness.

Thus it's no surprise that the three cardinal
rules of System Administration are:

1: Backup
2: Backup




Unix Backup & Recovery Review,  May 05 1999
Submitted by Rob Worman   [Respond | View]



I have had occasion to work with Curtis in the past, and let me say "this guy lives and breathes backups"

this book will be a must for the O'Reilly bookshelf!

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Media reviews "If terabytes and petabytes of information fall under your care, Curtis Preston is the author with the expertise to help you back them up and restore them successfully...If you have only one Unix server under your care, you will want to read this book, because it explains utilities like tar and cpio in a language more accessible than the online manual 'man.' If you are responsible for a complex library or archival automation network, running one of the major database management systems described, you will appreciate the clear thinking involved even more highly."
--Christopher Brown-Syed, Library and Archival Security, Vol 17, Number 1, 2001

"the book is complete coverage of Unix backup and recovery. Huh. Truth in advertising. Whodathunkit--With many years' worth of practical experience, several specialist contributors, and dozens of technical reviewers, this book leaves few stones unturned. No matter how experienced you are at managing backups, you could probably learn at least a few tricks from Curtis Preston and his crew. Normally discussions about backups are relegated to, at best, a single chapter in a Unix administration book. 'Unix Backup & Recovery' is the first title I've ever seen that covers this territory in full detail. In fact, even if you aren't specifically a Unix administrator, the discussion of topics like the most common causes of system failure and how to pitch a more reliable backup scheme to management are very cross-platform. They're worth reading no matter what type of computer system you rely upon...rating 10 of 10"
--Greg Smith, slashdot.org, April 2000

"The word "backup" can elicit more fear and resolutions than any other word systems administrators hear. Usually, it is after a system failure when them administrator discovers how good his backup procedure really is. A new O'Reilly classic will help you find out how well your process works. 'UNIX Backup & Recovery' is one of the most essential reference and resource books written for systems administrators that I have read. Preston demonstrates the necessity of thorough backup plans and illustrates what can happen when some aspect of a backup is overlooked. He discusses both hardware and software issues and illustrates how each can be backed up and, more importantly, restored to its prior state. (The most precise and complete backups aren't worth anything if they cannot be restored.) The author's plentiful examples and informal writing style make the book interesting, readable, and valuable. Preston has written the resource that he would have wanted to read. Every UNIX system administrator needs this extraordinary book now. Tomorrow may be too late."
--Elizabeth Zinkann, Sys Admin, March 2000

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