The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 725 pages
• Published by: Schaser-Vartan Books; Third edition 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

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

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

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. Comment | | (Report this)