Preston W. Unix Backup and Recovery

O’Reilly, 1999 — 736 p.
Unix Backup & Recovery provides a complete overview of all facets of Unix backup and recovery, and offers practical, affordable backup and recovery solutions for environments of all sizes and budgets. The book begins with detailed explanations of the native backup utilities available to the Unix administrator, and ends with practical advice on choosing a commercial backup utility.This book:Describes the features, limitations, and syntax of Unix backup and restore utilities,(including dump, tar, cpio, dd, GNUtar, and GNUcpio) for many popular versions of Unix, including AIX, Compaq Unix, HP-UX, IRIX, SCO, Solaris, and Linux
Provides instructions for installing and configuring freely available backup systems such as AMANDA
Includes ready-to-run shell scripts that automate live backups of Informix, Oracle, and Sybase databases
Presents step-by-step recovery procedures for Oracle, Informix, and Sybase
Presents step-by-step "bare-metal" disaster recovery procedures for AIX, Compaq Unix, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, and Linux
Describes the design of "disaster recovery" and "highly available" systems
Provides guidance on choosing a commercial backup and recovery system
Describes the features and limitations of backup hardware