Unix Backup and Recovery

by W. Curtis Preston, Gigi Estabrook (Editor)

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

Genres: Reference, Technical, Geek

736 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