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Windows NT Backup & Restore

Windows NT Backup & Restore
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Windows NT Backup & Restore

by Jody Leber
Product Group: Book
Publisher: O'Reilly (1998-05)
ISBN: 1565922727
EAN: 9781565922723
Dewy Decimal #: 005.44769
Paperback: 320 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: mon0000021143
Condition: Very Good


Editorial Reviews


Product Description
As the number of mission-critical applications running on Windows NT grows, it becomes vital for administrators to safeguard data from loss or corruption. While a myriad of Microsoft and third-party software and hardware solutions are currently available (and more are becoming available every day), there is very little guidance for the administrator faced with the problem.

Beginning with a discussion of the need for a workable recovery policy and ways to translate that policy into requirements, Windows NT Backup & Restore presents the reader with practical guidelines for setting up an effective backup system in both small and large environments. This book covers the native NT utilities and also includes a discussion of major third-party hardware and software. Numerous checklists help guide you through the various decisions you need to make to implement an effective backup system.

Contents include:

  • Introduction to recovery concepts
  • Policy and requirements definition
  • Special NT requirements
  • Software options
  • Hardware considerations

Administrators will want to have this book handy at each step as they plan and implement their recovery plans.


Customer Reviews


Good overview, look for details elsewhere
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-08-19


This is a great book to give you a starting place when starting a backup project - if your looking for in depth WinNT information, you'll have to find another book, or ask in a forum.


DON'T WASTE TIME READING THIS BOOK!
Rating (1)
Date: 2002-12-28

2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful


I had a particular objective in mind in choosing this book for review. I am not terribly familiar with NT and having been forced to install an NT server for a customer recently, I wanted a reference on the backup procedures - so serious am I about the importance of backups. I need not have bothered!
There are twelve chapters and three appendices. Only three chapters are specific to NT and one of these deals with software from third parties (Arcserve, ADSM, Backup Express, etc.). The other chapters are very general and deal with concepts that are not at all peculiar to NT.

So, much as I respect the O'Reilly publications and much as I fear the consequences of badly managed backups, I cannot recommend this book to anyone who is other than a complete novice. Most of the material (backup regimes, network considerations, hardware devices) is either old-hat, readily available elsewhere or common sense. It is certainly not peculiar to NT. Even recommending it to beginners leaves me in a dilemma - beginners should not be made responsible for backing up a critical server and if the server is not critical then the on-line, NT help screens are probably all that is needed. Certainly, I found them sufficient.

For the level of user at which this book is aimed, I think the main problem is emphasising the importance of backups per se.

(Personally I adopt a military stance and become a martinet!) This might take a book on psychology or persuasion, not on the performance of DLT. Ms. Leber should not be writing books, she should be heading to see a shrink.


If you are responsible for NT Servers, get this book
Rating (5)
Date: 1998-07-02

8 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful


This book is excellent. I work on an extremely large backup project (1000+ servers), and I found that Ms. Leber accurately covered all of the issues that we've had to deal with (both technical and non-technical). The book contains a wealth of information about backup issues for NT, but it also contains alot of general information that would be relevant to backing up any platform, so it would probably be useful to people who were responsible for backups in general.

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