Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems

Part II consists of five chapters:

Chapter 3, Basic Backup and Recovery Utilities

Describes all the basic backup utilities that you should know about, including dump, cpio, tar, and dd for Unix systems, ntbackup and System Restore for Windows systems, ditto for Mac OS systems, and the GNU versions of tar, cpio, and rsync that are available for all of these platforms.

Chapter 4, Amanda

Describes the popular open-source backup project of the same name.

Chapter 5, BackupPC

Discusses how to use this disk-based backup and recovery system.

Chapter 6, Bacula

Is a guide to the open-source backup product that is designed to scale from single machines to enterprise networks.

Chapter 7, Open-Source Near-CDP

Describes tools and techniques for achieving near-continuous data protection.