Mark McGlashan fully qualfied former IBM Computer Engineer
Backup and Recovery is the defiantly the most import part of any pc which is computer orientated. Despite various Computer Programs on the market dedicated to backing up
Such as Acronis and Ghost which are both great programs as they cater for many different types of work environments such as the basic office and home user right down to a huge corporate company. Knowing these programs and their existence is a good thing however having the formulas as how to backup your data and manage it and the various ways to backup under different circumstances is something which can only come together with years of experience within the business of Computer administration technical and PC Repairs within this field. A great place to begin is with the book published by O’Reilly called Backup and Recovery written by
W. Curtis Preston which is loaded with ideas for any computer administrator whether he or she have been in the PC Repair business for 1 year or ten years.
There are countless methods under many different operating systems environments explained in this book also many variations which can be applied under different circumstances such as using Linux programs like Ghost for Linux and using live Linux Distro’s which run from your system ram to backup your data.
Often one comes into a situation where their hard drive has countless errors and they are being unsuccessful in backing up with the standard methods used by the big programs and the limited methods they know reduce their success with Backup and Recovery you will learn a host of feature and you can tackle situations like this. This has to be one of the only books in the world dedicated to Backup and Recovery.
It covers all the operating systems and the types of backups and it also covers archiving over a long period how to maintain them over a long time and be able to retrieve from them quickly if needed. Chapter Eight Commercial backup utilities is a prime example of this discussion
There are 24 chapters and the book does not have to be read in any special order. Whatever you’re field of business backing and recovery is a great asset to your company even as a reference. The great thing it speaks about lots of software which is not commercial and you can get for free whether you use Linux, Mac or Windows or any other operating system this book Backup and Recovery will show you how to backup your complete system extremely effectively |