Unix Backup & Recovery (Paperback, CD-ROM)

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