Backup & Recovery
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The previous incarnation of this book (seven years old, now) was a heavy hitter in the Linux and UNIX communities. While that's not a bad thing, it doesn't do much for you if you administer a heterogeneous server and desktop environment (tell me you don't have any Windows computers at all where you work). Preston threw a much wider net this time, covering not only UNIX/Linux and Windows but Mac OS X, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, and even VMware. Most backup and recovery books on the market target specific OS and hardware platforms. That would seem to make sense on the surface and would make the book easier to write. This book however, proposes to be the "one-stop-shopping" text for just about everyone's needs. Preston's first book on the subject was a smash. Let's see if lightning strikes twice in the same place.
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Backup & Recovery answers many much-asked questions in the server admin realm and provides numerous options to
conventional backup software solutions. There's a section in the Introduction called "Only the Recovery Matters". The author quotes his
friend Joe Fitzpatrick: "No one cares if you can back up--only if you can recover." I suddenly realized that anything I've ever read on
disaster recovery has been focused primarily on the back up process with almost no coverage on recovery...yet recovery is what it's all about.
Fortunately Preston knows this and he gives you what you need to know in this book to recover your systems. Full Story |
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