Backup & Recovery
Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems
by W. Curtis Preston · first published 2007
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While it's a bit dated, this book, Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems (http://www.amazon.com/Backup-Recovery-Inexpensive-Solutions-...) is highly recommended. And higher level programs like BackupPC and Bacula are still excellent solutions. It's comprehensive, covers off-line bare metal backups (which aren't exactly changing any time soon), points you at tools like
on “Averting Disaster – A Guide To Computer Backups (2014)” ↗In the late 1990s, W. Curtis Preston wrote a book called “Unix Backup and Recovery”. A later version was just named “Backup and Recovery”. Both were published by O’Reilly. He was saying similar things at that time (e.g., “Backups are worthless, Restores are priceless”), and I’m certain…
on “The 3-2-1 Backup Rule – Why Your Data Will Always Survive (2019)” ↗W. Curtis Preston, author of the O'Reilly book "Backup and Recovery" has said: > Backups are useless. Restores are priceless. I also like: > The state of a backup is unknown and unknowable, until such time as it has been tested with a restore.
on “You're backing up for the wrong disaster” ↗