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.