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Book Description

Safeguard mission-critical data in the dot com era.

Plan and implement a scalable backup/restore architecture that meets IT service level agreements.

Includes general advice, case studies, a practical methodology, and example data center runbooks.

Backup & Restore Practices for Sun Enterprise Servers is a practical guide for IT organizations that are tasked with implementing or revamping a backup/restore architecture. The book includes case studies, a methodology, and example runbooks. It addresses issues such as scalability and performance of the backup/restore architecture, criteria for selecting tools and technologies, and tradeoffs that must be considered. It provides technical guidelines for planning the architecture to meet service levels, as well as general advice and guidance.

Table of Contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Preface
  4. Managing a Backup and Restore Initiative
    1. Sun and the Evolving Datacenter Model
    2. Managerial Issues
    3. Backup Tool Selection Criteria
  5. Backup and Restore Basics
    1. Physical and Logical Backups
    2. Fully Consistent File System Dumps
    3. Full-Time Availability
    4. Database Backup Technology
    5. Advances in Backup Technology
  6. Case Studies
    1. Case Study: A Transition to VERITAS NetBackup
    2. Case Study: A Solstice Backup Implementation
  7. Methodology: Planning a Backup Architecture
    1. Capacity Planning
    2. Environment Considerations
    3. Expectations
    4. Simple Sizing Model
  8. NetBackup Runbook
    1. Monitoring and Killing Backup Jobs
    2. NetBackup Reports
    3. Manual Backup and Restore
  9. Oracle Parallel Export Script
    1. Why a Parallel Export Script?
    2. Overview of the paresh Approach
    3. The list_tbls Script
    4. The paresh Script
  10. High-Speed Database Backups on Sun Systems
    1. Executive Summary
    2. Technology for High Performance Backups
    3. Delivering High-Speed Database Backups
    4. A Range of Backup Solutions
  11. Business Continuity Planning and Sun Technologies
    1. Introduction
    2. Planning for Continuity
    3. Business Continuity Planning
    4. Sun and BCP
  12. Glossary
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