On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Glenn Cogle <gco...@gmail.com> wrote: > A backup isn't a backup unless it can be restored from.
On that subject, because of O'Reilley's current 3-for-2 book deal, I just refreshed my 11 year old copy of "Unix Backup & Recovery" with the newer "Backup & Recovery", which covers Unix, Linux, OS X and Windows. Very highly recommended, an excellent and accessible book. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102463/ It's primarily about open source tools being used for backup environments, and is pretty close to being an essential read. However, you can get most of his advice on http://backupcentral.com/ I was flipping through the old book, and out of the front dropped some printouts :- the complete procedure for installing AMANDA (client and server) on one of my old employer's systems, and the config files! I guess in the pre-wiki world (this would have been late 1999) I'd put a copy of the procedures in the best place to look in an emergency -- in the Backup & Recovery book! Now I must remember to check that I have paper dumps of restore data for other machines ... -jim
