Unix Backup and Recovery

by W. Curtis Preston, Gigi Estabrook (Editor)

The author first reviews freely available filesystems backup and recovery utilities for smaller systems, and how to evaluate the commercial utilities befitting larger companies. He then describes the features and syntax of backup and restore utilities of many popular versions of Unix, and provides recovery procedures for Oracle, Informix and Sybase databases. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Genres: Reference, Technical, Technology, Geek

707 pages, Paperback

First published November 18, 1999

Reviews

[Benjamin Sigrist · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good - especially the sections on the open source tools like dump, tar, rsync. Skipped over the sections specific to certain types of bare-metal recovery and certain database backups. For a book published in 2007, spent far too much time dealing with tape backups (people still do that?). Would like to read another book on the subject for a clearer picture on some of the concepts. Good overall though.

[Calhariz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book have given to my a completely new way on how to deal with backups. From my a naive perspective I evolved to a much more complete and professional view on how to deal with backups. Being small backups of a Desktop to big backups of a modern Data Center. Lessons I learned have been proved by time as correct.

[Cuong Bui]

Great book on backup