Backup and Restore Practices for the Enterprise

Stan Stringfellow, Prentice Hall PTR

ISBN:013089401X, Edition: 1st, 2000-08

Price: $44.00

• Backup and Restore Practices for Sun Enterprise Servers
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
  • Who Should Use This Book
  • How This Book Is Organized
  • Using UNIX Commands
  • Typographic Conventions
  • Shell Prompts
  • Accessing Sun Documentation Online
  • Ordering Sun Documentation
  • Sun Welcomes Your Comments
• Chapter 1. Managing a Backup and Restore Initiative
  • Sun and the Evolving Datacenter Model
  • Managerial Issues
  • Backup Tool Selection Criteria
• Chapter 2. Backup and Restore Basics
  • Physical and Logical Backups
  • Fully Consistent File System Dumps
  • Full-Time Availability
  • Database Backup Technology
  • Advances in Backup Technology
• Chapter 3. Case Studies
  • Case Study: A Transition to VERITAS NetBackup
  • Case Study: A Solstice Backup Implementation
• Chapter 4. Methodology: Planning a Backup Architecture
  • Capacity Planning
  • Environment Considerations
  • Expectations
  • Simple Sizing Model
• Chapter 5. NetBackup Runbook
  • Monitoring and Killing Backup Jobs
  • NetBackup Reports
  • Manual Backup and Restore
• Chapter 6. Oracle Parallel Export Script
  • Why a Parallel Export Script?
  • Overview of the paresh Approach
  • The list_tbls Script
  • The paresh Script
• Appendix A. High-Speed Database Backups on Sun Systems
  • Executive Summary
  • Technology for High Performance Backups
  • Delivering High-Speed Database Backups
  • A Range of Backup Solutions
• Appendix B. Business Continuity Planning and Sun Technologies
  • Introduction
  • Planning for Continuity
  • Business Continuity Planning
  • Sun and BCP
• Glossary