In her thirteen years as special agent for the FBI, Rosemary Dew worked undercover against criminals, spies, and terrorists, earning eight commendations for her service. Despite her achievements, for her entire tenure she remained the subject of severe discrimination and even sexual harassment that the bureau seemed to condone rather than condemn. In elegant and deeply felt prose, Dew argues that this climate of corruption and duplicity not only taints the experience of the FBI's few female agents but also leads directly to some of the bureau's most harmful failures, such as the remarkable intelligence breakdown that allowed spy Robert Hanssen to operate undetected for more than two decades. Narrated by one of the most successful— and one of the only—women in the bureau's history, No Backup is a startling look at the destructive and discriminatory culture that dominates one of America's most powerful agencies, as well as an impassioned plea to an organization that must reform itself.

Good backup and recovery strategies are key to the health of any organization. Medium- to very-large-scale systems administrators have to protect large amounts of critical data as well as design backup solutions that are scalable and optimized to meet changing conditions. Pro Data Backup and Recovery will cover some of the more common backup applications, such as Symantec NetBackup/BackupExec, EMC NetWorker, and CommVault, but the main discussion will focus on the implementation of 21st century architectures that allow the backup software to be a “commodity” item. The underlying architecture provides the framework for meeting the requirements of data protection for the organization. This book covers new developments in data protection as well as the impact of single-instance storage upon backup infrastructures. It discusses the impact of backup and data replication, the often misapplied B2D and D2D strategies, and “tapeless” backup environments. Continuous data protection and remote replication strategies are also addressed as they are integrated within backup strategies—a very important topic today. Learn backup solution design regardless of specific backup software Design realistic recovery solutions Take into account new data protection standards and the impact of data replication Whether you are using NetBackup, CommVault, or some other backup software, Pro Data Backup and Recovery will give you the information you need to keep your data safe and available.

New and updated, the Online Backup Guide for Service Providers, is a complete guide on starting and operating an Online Backup Service the latest revision of Rob Cosgrove's industry defining RBS Book originally published in 1987.

Providing an overview of all facets of UNIX backup and recovery, this text offers practical solutions for environments of all sizes and budgets, explaining everything from freely-available backup systems to large-scale commercial utilities.

“The developer who has failed in design can be forgiven, but the administrator who has failed in backup and recovery cannot be forgiven.” Just as the above indicates, backup and recovery requires a lot of experiences and knowledge along with discretion. However, it would be too risky to learn the backup and recovery by practicing it, because a simple failure in the backup and recovery will generate tremendous loss. That is why you have to study how to respond and keep a good book at hand so that you can get help from the book whenever you want. In this sense, I can guarantee that this book will serve as a strong anchor when you are in trouble. One of the characteristics of the book is that it presents various types of errors and failures you may encounter at the field. It analyzes error and failure causes from the different perspectives, and explains how to actually do the recovery, particularly focusing on the practical work. It also contains many case-by-case scenarios that are easy to find, so you can get the solutions you need without any difficulty. For example, when you start up the Oracle you may face “ORA-00205: error in identifying control file, check alert log for more info” message and see the Oracle server doesn’t start. In this case, you can refer to the case 1 in the chapter 5 to immediately know the solution. If you drop a table by mistake, you may refer to the chapter 9 in order to recover the table without stopping the server. If you want to respond to the errors and failures that happen in a RAC environment, you can go to the chapter 12 and refer to the cases of various error types. Simply speaking, this book classifies all the errors and failures based on their types, and explains their causes and the responses to them. Sometimes you may successfully do the recovery, not knowing how the recovery is done. This is because you simply memorize how to respond. If you understand the principles of the recovery, going beyond simple memorization, you can always respond to a more complex and difficult situation. Understanding the principles will help you put your knowledge to practical use. Various examples and easy explanations on the principles of the book will surely enhance your ability to apply your knowledge. Make sure you keep this book in order to become the professional engineer who never fails in backup and recovery! 1. Oracle Recovery Principles 2. No Archive Log Mode and Archive Log Mode 3. Oracle Backup 4. Parameter File Management and Recovery 5. Control File Recovery 6. Log Miner Use and Redo Log File Error 7. Data File Error and User Error Recovery 8. Data Migration 9. Emergency Recovery in DB Open 10. Flashback 11. Recovery Manager (RMAN) 12. RAC Backup and Recovery (Raw device) 13. Block Corruption Recovery

Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of Unix Backup & Recovery by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material. Backup & Recovery starts with a complete overview of backup philosophy and design, including the basic backup utilities of tar, dump, cpio, ntbackup, ditto, and rsync. It then explains several open source backup products that automate backups using those utilities, including AMANDA, Bacula, BackupPC, rdiff-backup, and rsnapshot. Backup & Recovery then explains how to perform bare metal recovery of AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, VMWare, & Windows systems using freely-available utilities. The book also provides overviews of the current state of the commercial backup software and hardware market, including overviews of CDP, Data De-duplication, D2D2T, and VTL technology. Finally, it covers how to automate the backups of DB2, Exchange, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, and Sybase databases - without purchasing a commercial backup product to do so. For environments of all sizes and budgets, this unique book shows you how to ensure data protection without resorting to expensive commercial solutions. You will soon learn to: Automate the backup of popular databases without a commercial utility Perform bare metal recovery of any popular open systems platform, including your PC or laptop Utilize valuable but often unknown open source backup products Understand the state of commercial backup software, including explanations of CDP and data de-duplication software Access the current state of backup hardware, including Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs)

This IBM Redbooks publication provides a getting started level of information about supporting the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510 under i5/OS, primarily using the Backup Recovery and Media Services (BRMS), 5722-BR1, management product. BRMS is the primary backup and recovery management product for i5/OS. This book cannot make you an expert in i5/OS backup and recovery or in the use of BRMS. It also cannot make you an expert in full usage and management of the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510 capabilities. More complete coverage of the TS7510 is included in the book IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510: Tape Virtualization for Open Systems Servers, SG24-7189. However, this book does provide sufficient information and examples to get you up and running with the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510 attached to an i5/OS partition or system using BRMS. This book also helps you to understand where the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510 can fit into your complete set of backup and recovery processes where multiple systems or servers, or logical partitions have to save data to a common repository. The TS7510 helps you to minimize your backup window, facilitates data sharing among the multiple systems, and helps you to minimize your total cost of ownership (TCO) in the backup and recovery area.