The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 725 pages
• Published by: Schaser-Vartan Books
• Edition: 3rd Edition July 1, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0972903909
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0972903905
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 3 pounds

Product Review
"Absolutely the best book ever written about keeping your data secure." -- Cihan Cobanoglu, Ph.D., assistant professor of information technology, University of Delaware

"An invaluable tool designed to help professionals keep their secured data available." -- Scott Petry, vice president of products and engineering, Postini, Inc.

"It has been a joy reading your book. This will be my new go-to guide for backup and recovery." -- Wyatt Banks, security systems engineer, Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles

"Reading this book will save you and your company a lot of money in disaster avoidance." -- Mitch Krayton, Digital Resources *1stKIOSK

"The Backup Book is an invaluable tool designed to help professionals keep their secured data available." -- Scott Petry, vice-president of products and engineering, Postini, Inc.

"This book is an essential reference for anyone interested in storage technology." -- Mark Hurlow, president, FWB Software

"This book is one of the most important survival guides any IT human being will ever buy." -- Jerry Pape, founder, Excalibur software Production and Testing

Product Description
Detailing what can go wrong in backup and recovery and how this applies to the various backup methods available, this book couples that information with recovery and business continuity tactics played out over the backdrop of various real-world scenarios. Covered is how freezes, corruption, and loss affects documents, equipment, and day-to-day business activities, and the cost of downtime and job re-creation is explained in a way that builds the best budget for availability, backup, and recovery. Protection and restoration of user data and from various locations and times is also covered, as well as how to keep a business running after a power failure, network failure, or other unforeseen event.

Reader Reviews
The book starts with an educative chapter of how disastrous various data losses can be, and how to calculate the costs of these losses. Then it analyzes ways of protection from different failures at various levels: documents, applications, OS, Storage, CPUs, network, power and building. Throughout the book there are references to various products and services of different vendors. When the author recommends certain software, there are attempts to suit three operating systems: Windows, OS X and UNIX. In the chapter about storage corruption, there is an interesting section about SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). I personally use SMART to monitor temperature of my HDDs. But I've found an inaccuracy in the description of the differences between SCSII and IDE. The author claims that "OS just says to SCSII 'Give me a file', and SCSII delivers it, whereas with IDE the OS deals with fragmentation of files". This is incorrect. SCSII doesn't' work on file level, and OS deals with fragmentation at SCSII as well. The information in this book corresponds year 2000 approximately, it mentions IDE size limit of 137GB and speed limit of 33 MBps (Ultra DMA Mode 2). The drawback of this book is lack of coverage of collaboration tools like CVS or Subversion as very efficient backup tools. These tools are very easy to use at client side, although their server side is somewhat difficult to install. The intended audience of the book is very broad, and the style is very simple so even a computer novice can understand this book.