The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center (Paperback)

Editorial Reviews

Review
"Absolutely the best book ever written about keeping your data secure." -- Cihan Cobanoglu, Ph.D., assistant professor of information technology, University of Delaware

"An invaluable tool designed to help professionals keep their secured data available." -- Scott Petry, vice president of products and engineering, Postini, Inc.

"It has been a joy reading your book. This will be my new go-to guide for backup and recovery." -- Wyatt Banks, security systems engineer, Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles

"Reading this book will save you and your company a lot of money in disaster avoidance." -- Mitch Krayton, Digital Resources *1stKIOSK

"The Backup Book is an invaluable tool designed to help professionals keep their secured data available." -- Scott Petry, vice-president of products and engineering, Postini, Inc.

"This book is an essential reference for anyone interested in storage technology." -- Mark Hurlow, president, FWB Software

"This book is one of the most important survival guides any IT person will ever buy." -- Jerry Pape, founder, Excalibur Software Production and Testing

Product Description
Detailing what can go wrong in backup and recovery and how this applies to the various backup methods available, this book couples that information with recovery and business continuity tactics played out over the backdrop of various real-world scenarios. Covered is how freezes, corruption, and loss affects documents, equipment, and day-to-day business activities, and the cost of downtime and job re-creation is explained in a way that builds the best budget for availability, backup, and recovery. Protection and restoration of user data and from various locations and times is also covered, as well as how to keep a business running after a power failure, network failure, or other unforeseen event.