Backup & Recovery View Larger Image | W. Curtis Preston
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Packed with practical, freely-available backup and recovery solutions for Unix,
Linux, Windows and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this
new guide is a complete overhaul of Unix Backup & Recovery by the
same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material.
Backup & Recovery starts with a complete overview of backup philosophy
and design, including the basic backup utilities of tar, dump, cpio, ntbackup,
ditto, and rsync. It then explains several open source backup products that
automate backups using those utilities, including AMANDA, Bacula, BackupPC,
rdiff-backup, and rsnapshot. Backup & Recovery then explains how
to perform bare metal recovery of AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, VMWare,
& Windows systems using freely-available utilities. The book also provides
overviews of the current state of the commercial backup software and hardware
market, including overviews of CDP, Data De-duplication, D2D2T, and VTL technology.
Finally, it covers how to automate the backups of DB2, Exchange, MySQL, Oracle,
PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, and Sybase databases - without purchasing a commercial
backup product to do so.
For environments of all sizes and budgets, this unique book shows you how to
ensure data protection without resorting to expensive commercial solutions.
You will soon learn to:
- Automate the backup of popular databases without a commercial utility
- Perform bare metal recovery of any popular open systems platform, including
your PC or laptop
- Utilize valuable but often unknown open source backup products
- Understand the state of commercial backup software, including explanations
of CDP and data de-duplication software
- Access the current state of backup hardware, including Virtual Tape Libraries
(VTLs)
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. Introduction
1. The Philosophy of Backup
Champagne Backup on a Beer Budget
Why Should I Read This Book?
Why Back Up?
Wax On, Wax Off: Finding a Balance
2. Backing It All Up
Don't Skip This Chapter!
Deciding Why You Are Backing Up
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
Part II. Open-Source Backup Utilities
3. Basic Backup and Recovery Utilities
An Overview
Backing Up and Restoring with ntbackup
Using System Restore in Windows
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
Using rsync
Backing Up and Restoring with the ditto Utility
Comparing tar, cpio, and dump
Using ssh or rsh as a Conduit Between Systems
4. Amanda
Summary of Important Features
Configuring Amanda
Backing Up Clients via NFS or Samba
Amanda Recovery
Community and Support Options
Future Plans
5. BackupPC
BackupPC Features
How BackupPC Works
Installation How-To
Starting BackupPC
Per-Client Configuration
The BackupPC Community
The Future of BackupPC
6. Bacula
Bacula Architecture
Bacula Features
An Example Configuration
Advanced Features
Future Directions
7. Open-Source Near-CDP
rsync with Snapshots
rsnapshot
rdiff-backup
Part III. Commercial Backup
8. Commercial Backup Utilities
What to Look For
Full Support of Your Platforms
Backup of Raw Partitions
Backup of Very Large Filesystems and Files
Aggressive Requirements
Simultaneous Backup of Many Clients to One Drive
Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup
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
Final Thoughts
9. Backup Hardware
Decision Factors
Using Backup Hardware
Tape Drives
Optical Drives
Automated Backup Hardware
Disk Targets
Part IV. Bare-Metal Recovery
10. Solaris Bare-Metal Recovery
Using Flash Archive
Preparing for an Interactive Restore
Setup of a Noninteractive Restore
Final Thoughts
11. Linux and Windows
How It Works
The Steps in Theory
Assumptions
Alt-Boot Full Image Method
Alt-Boot Partition Image Method
Live Method
Alt-Boot Filesystem Method
Automate Bare-Metal Recovery with G4L
Commercial Solutions
12. HP-UX Bare-Metal Recovery
System Recovery with Ignite-UX
Planning for Ignite-UX Archive Storage and Recovery
Implementation Example
System Cloning
Security
System Recovery and Disk Mirroring
13. AIX Bare-Metal Recovery
IBM's mksysb and savevg Utilities
Backing Up with mksysb
Setting Up NIM
savevg Operations
Verifying a mksysb or savevg Backup
Restoring an AIX System with mksysb
System Cloning
14. Mac OS X Bare-Metal Recovery
How It Works
A Sample Bare-Metal Recovery
Part V. Database Backup
15. 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
ACID Compliance
What Can Happen to an RDBMS?
Backing Up an RDBMS
Restoring an RDBMS
Documentation and Testing
Unique Database Requirements
16. Oracle Backup and Recovery
Two Backup Methods
Oracle Architecture
Physical Backups Without rman
Physical Backups with rman
Flashback
Managing the Archived Redo Logs
Recovering Oracle
Logical Backups
A Broken Record
17. Sybase Backup and Recovery
Sybase Architecture
The Power User's View
The DBA's View
Protecting Your Database
Backup Automation Through Scripting
Physical Backups with a Storage Manager
Recovering Your Database
Common Sybase Procedures
Sybase Recovery Procedure
18. IBM DB2 Backup and Recovery
DB2 Architecture
The backup, restore, rollforward, and recover Commands
Recovering Your Database
19. SQL Server
Overview of SQL Server
The Power User's View
The DBA's View
Backups
Logical (Table-Level) Backups
Restore and Recovery
20. Exchange
Exchange Architecture
Storage Groups
Backup
Using ntbackup to Back Up
Restore
Exchange Restore
21. PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL Architecture
Backup and Recovery
Point-in-Time Recovery
22. MySQL
MySQL Architecture
MySQL Backup and Recovery Methodologies
Part VI. Potpourri
23. VMware and Miscellanea
Backing Up VMware Servers
Volatile Filesystems
Demystifying dump
How Do I Read This Volume?
Gigabit Ethernet
Disk Recovery Companies
Yesterday
Trust Me About the Backups
24. It's All About Data Protection
Business Reasons for Data Protection
Technical Reasons for Data Protection
Backup and Archive
What Needs to Be Backed Up?
What Needs to Be Archived?
Examples of Backup and Archive
Can Open-Source Backup Do the Job?
Disaster Recovery
Everything Starts with the Business
Storage Security
Conclusion
Index
About the Author
W. Curtis Preston has specialized in designing data protection systems since
1993, and has designed such systems for many environments, both large and small.
His lively prose and wry, real-world approach has made him a popular author
and speaker.
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