The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center

Bys: Dorian Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop

Provides information on backup and recovery for workstations, databases, file servers, e-mail, and workgroups along with analysis of disaster recovery products, worksheets, and budgets to customize... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972903909
• ISBN13: 9780972903905
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Schaser Vartan Books
• Length: 595 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Great all-around book

This is one of the few backup books that isn't slanted toward a single product (such as a VERITAS book, or an EMC book). Covering what the authors found to be "the most prominent problems in the network today," this book focuses on basic solutions for the problems that we all face in the real world. And it is written in a style that is part straight to the point and part humorous. The only thing that I would suggest adding is a set of powerpoint slides for training (maybe next time guys?). Is this book an in-depth book on every subject? No. This is not the be-all-to-end-all SAN backup book. Or RAID book. Or the "best of breed" for anything that it covers. But I don't think that the authors meant it to be a drill-down-to-the-bottom type of book. It covers what it needs to cover to suggest the right solution. And for most of us, that's just fine. But if I had to grab one book when I head out to think through backup problems, this is the book to grab.

The Bible of Disaster Recovery

A number of things set The Backup Book apart from others:1. The writing is fantastic -- friendly and easy to follow.2. The examples are real -- the authors have great experiences we can learn from (without having to go through it ourselves!)3. The book is complete -- they cover everything from determining which data is critical to a variety of methods one can use to protect the data.I also like how the authors interlace the experiences of "field editors" -- other folks who know what they're talking about -- throughout the book.If you're involved in network management and/or data security, you need to read this book.

Excellent Backup Resource

An incredibly thorough, accurate and well thought-out reference guide written by the top talent in the industry. The Backup Book is an excellent resource for learning the basic concepts, technologies and techniques used in implementing successful backup strategies. It includes detailed information about the leading backup software products for both Windows and Mac environments. I refer to it all the time and it hasn't let me down once.

No greater expert on backup

This book is out of this world. It explains backup and disaster recovery such that one can actually understand it! The writer's style is funny and conversational, and it really helps you get through what would otherwise be rather, err...dry material... Put down your incomprehensible Backup Exec manuals, and Microsoft disaster recovery whitepapers. This one gives it to you in english, *and* gives you a worksheet at the end that is a perfect roadmap to actually getting these systems in place.

A must read for Business and Technology Pros

The Backup Book should be required reading for all Executives and IT Managers. The technical information is given in an entertaining way for a business audience. The business aspects of company data are explained to the techie crowd along with the necessary technical informationAnd the writing style makes it a page turner.Buy it for yourself or the person at your company that changes the backup tapes every night. You will sleep better.