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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

Table of Contents:
Preface. I. Introduction 1. Preparing for the Worst My Dad Was Right Developing a Disaster Recovery Plan Step 1: Define (Un)acceptable Loss Step 2: Back Up Everything Step 3: Organize Everything Step 4: Protect Against Disasters Step 5: Document What You Have Done Step 6: Test, Test, Test Put It All Together 2. Backing It All Up Don't Skip This Chapter! Why Should You Read This Book? How Serious Is Your Company About Backups? You Can Find a Balance Deciding What to Back Up Deciding When to Back Up Deciding How to Back Up Storing Your Backups Testing Your Backups Monitoring Your Backups Following Proper Development Procedures Unrelated Miscellanea Good Luck. II. Freely Available Filesystem Backup & Recovery Utilities 3. Native Backup & Recovery Utilities An Overview Backing Up with the dump Utility Restoring with the restore Utility Limitations of dump and restore Features to Check For Backing Up and Restoring with the cpio Utility Backing Up and Restoring with the tar Utility Backing Up and Restoring with the dd Utility Comparing tar, cpio, and dump How Do I Read This Volume? 4. Free Backup Utilities The hostdump.sh Utility The infback.sh, oraback.sh, and syback.sh Utilities A Really Fast tar Utility: star Recording Configuration Data: The SysAudit Utility Displaying Host Information: The SysInfo Utility Performing Remote Detections: The queso Utility Mapping Your Network: The nmap Utility AMANDA III. Commercial Filesystem Backup & Recovery Utilities 5. Commercial Backup Utilities What to Look For Full Support of Your Platforms Backup of Raw Partitions Backup of Very Large Filesystems and Files Simultaneous Backup of Many Clients to One Drive Simultaneous Backup of One Client to Many Drives Data Requiring Special Treatment Storage Management Features Reduction in Network Traffic Support of a Standard or Custom Backup Format Ease of Administration Security Ease of Recovery Protection of the Backup Index Robustness Automation Volume Verification Cost Vendor Conclusions. 6. High Availability What Is High Availability? HA Building Blocks Commercial HA Solutions The Impact of an HA Solution IV. Bare-Metal Backup & Recovery Methods. 7. SunOS/Solaris What About Fire? Homegrown Bare-Metal Recovery Recovering a SunOS/Solaris System. 8. Linux How It Works A Sample Bare-Metal Recovery. 9. Compaq True-64 Unix Compaq's btcreate Utility Homegrown Bare-Metal Recovery. 10. HP-UX HP's make_recovery Utility The copyutil Utility Using dump and restore 11. IRIX SGI's Backup and Restore Utilities System Recovery with Backup Tape Homegrown Bare-Metal Recovery 12. AIX IBM's mksysb Utility IBM's Sysback/6000 Utility System Cloning V. Database Backup & Recovery 13. Backing Up Databases Can It Be Done? Confusion: The Mysteries of Database Architecture The Muck Stops Here: Databases in Plain English What's the Big Deal? Database Structure An Overview of a Page Change What Can Happen to an RDBMS? Backing Up an RDBMS Restoring an RDBMS Documentation and Testing Unique Database Requirements. 14. Informix Backup & Recovery Informix Architecture Automating Informix Startup: The dbstart.informix.sh Script Protect the Physical Log, Logical Log, and sysmaster Which Backup Utility Should I Use? Physical Backups Without a Storage Manager: ontape Physical Backups with a Storage Manager: onbar Recovering Informix Logical Backups. 15. Oracle Backup & Recovery Oracle Architecture Physical Backups Without a Storage Manager Physical Backups with a Storage Manager Managing the Archived Redologs Recovering Oracle Logical Backups A Broken Record. 16. Sybase Backup & Recovery Sybase Architecture Physical Backups Without a Storage Manager Physical Backups with a Storage Manager Recovering Sybase Logical Backups An Ounce of Prevention . . . VI. Backup & Recovery Potpourri 17. ClearCase Backup & Recovery ClearCase Architecture VOB Backup and Recovery Procedures View Backup and Recovery Procedures Summary 18. Backup Hardware Choosing on a Backup Drive Using Backup Hardware Tape Drives Optical Drives Automated Backup Hardware Vendors Hardware Comparison 19. Miscellanea Volatile Filesystems Demystifying dump Gigabit Ethernet Disk Recovery Companies Yesterday Trust Me About the Backups


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781565926424
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media
  • Publisher Imprint: O'Reilly Media
  • Height: 233 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1565926420
  • Publisher Date: 21 Dec 1999
  • Binding: Book
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1070 gr


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