Enterprise Backup and Beyond Outline

From Backup Central

Copyright 2007 O'Reilly & Associates: This outline is for a copyrighted O'Reilly work in progress and may not be used in any way as part of another work.

Enterprise Backup & Beyond is the book I've wanted to write for a long time, and will be a complement to Backup & Recovery, that covered how to backup Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- without resorting to expensive commercial software.

If Backup & Recovery was for people with no money, Enterprise Backup & Beyond will be written for people with money. In other words, I'm assuming that you've got a budget for commercial data protection software and hardware. If you don't, go buy the other book. ;)

The Outline

Currently, there are six broad sections to the book, all listed below. Click on the section title to get to the outline for that section.

Previously on Lost

  • Previously on Lost (A short by comparison review of the first three chapters in Backup & Recovery)

State of the Art

Decisions, Decisions

Managing Backups

Archive and Retrieval

Around 100 pages, covering modern commercial archiving (with a heavy focus on email archiving, just like the indusry). It will cover how to select, implement, and maintain an archive system.

Storage Security

Around 50-100 pages, covering the vulnerabilities associated with storage and how to address them. This will include things about securing the backup server, securing management portals on your SAN, the difference between WWN & port zoning, and methods for sending data offsite securely (encryption & de-dupe replication).

Disaster Recovery

Around 100 pages, covering the difference between DR & BC, consistency groups, replication, etc.

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