Backup & Recovery by W. Curtis Preston
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Backup & Recovery
by W. Curtis Preston
ISBN 0-596-10246-1
ISBN-13 978-0-596-10246-1
Rating: 4 out of 5 penguins
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Chapter 11: Linux and Windows
Chapter 11 covers how to do a bare-metal backup and recovery on Linux and Windows. It is poorly written. The author constantly uses if this, if that, blah, blah, blah.
A better approach would have been to explain the tools and then give a couple of specific examples. The tool used are, knoppix, dd, fdisk, tar and gzip.
I did learn how to use gzip with stdin/stdout by reading this chapter, though.
Backup:
# dd if=/dev/hda2 | gzip -c > /backups/hda2.dd.gz
Restore:
# gzip -dc /backups/hda2.dd.gz > /dev/hda2
Open question: How to restore to a new hd? Does it work, etc.
Open question: How does the boot process find the data in needs on the boot partition?
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Covers bacula!
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