Most of us have lost data from time to time due to forgetting to back it up. As a simple solution to this problem, Backup and Recovery by W. Curtis Preston ($49.99, O’Reilly, December, 2006, 729 pp.) comes to the rescue!
This book is designed to help users find easy and inexpensive methods for saving and backing up files. Although this book provides information for Max OS X systems, it also covers Windows, Linux, and Unix as well.
Before dealing with specifics, Preston spends a lot of time at the beginning of the book stressing the philosophy and needs for backing up your computer. “Why should I read this book” is addressed immediately by Preston:
“If you’ve been doing system administration for some time, you may be asking yourself this question. There are many answers. Perhaps self-preservation is your primary motivator. You’d like to make sure you don’t lose your job the next time a disk drive dies. Perhaps you’ve already got a decent backup system and you’d just like to deal with upcoming backup and recovery needs. “
Organization of the Book
Part I – Philosophy and Backup Introductions
Part II – Backup utilities available to you including open source
Part III – Using backup utilities and hardware
Part IV – Bare-Metal recovery
Part V – Recovery challenges for administrators
Part VI – Miscellaneous techniques
Evaluation
This book is a great help on finding backup techniques. Although the author is done valuable research on this topic, my only reservation is that the book is aimed at IT professionals rather than most mainstream consumers. At $49.99, this book is priced out of the range of most typical users.
Although the price of the book is $49.99, ApplePickers members can get up to a 35% discount by using discount code DSUG when ordering directly from O’Reilly
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