On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:48:15 -0400, Bob Hoffman bob@bobhoffman.com said:
B> When I figure this out, perfectly, I should post it all so others can B> have a backup solution. I have over 40 linux books and not one really B> goes into backups. They mention them, but no working examples of merit.
Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems W. Curtis Preston Paperback: 768 pages Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (January 10, 2007) ISBN-10: 0596102461 ISBN-13: 978-0596102463
Taken from the book description:
* Covers tar, dump, cpio, ntbackup, ditto, and rsync.
* Explains several open source backup products that automate backups using those utilities, including AMANDA, Bacula, BackupPC, rdiff-backup, and rsnapshot.
* How to perform bare metal recovery of AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, VMWare, & Windows systems using freely-available utilities.
* How to automate DB2, Exchange, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, and Sybase backups without using a commercial backup product.