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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, HPUX, IRIX, SCO, Solaris, and Linux Provides instructions for installing and configuring freely available backup systems such as AMANDA Includes readytorun shell scripts that automate live backups of Informix, Oracle, and Sybase databases Presents stepbystep recovery procedures for Oracle, Informix, and Sybase Presents stepbystep "baremetal" disaster recovery procedures for AIX, Compaq Unix, HPUX, 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.About the AuthorW. Curtis Preston has specialized in designing backup and recovery systems for over six years, and has designed such systems for many environments, both large and small. The first environment that Curtis was responsible for went from 7 small servers to 250 large servers in just over two years, running Oracle, Informix, and Sybase databases and five versions of UNIX. He started managing this environment with homegrown utilities and eventually installed the first of many commercial backup utilities. His passion for backup and recovery began with managing the data growth of this 24x7, missioncritical environment.
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