Backup & Restore Practices for Sun Enterprise Servers is a practical guide for IT organizations that are tasked with implementing or revamping a backup/restore architecture. The book includes case studies, a methodology, and example runbooks. It addresses issues such as scalability and performance of the backup/restore architecture, criteria for selecting tools and technologies, and tradeoffs that must be considered. It provides technical guidelines for planning the architecture to meet service levels, as well as general advice and guidance.

INTRODUCTION

Backup and Restore Practices for Sun Enterprise Servers focuses on technologies available from Sun Microsystems, Inc., and includes detailed information on backup and restore practices using software products and Sun EnterpriseTM servers running the SolarisTM operating environment.

This book takes a multifaceted approach to the topic and includes case studies developed from interviews with IT staff at companies who run their core operations on Sun Enterprise servers. It also contains a thorough and detailed methodology for planning and implementing a backup and restore architecture. To assist in the standardizing of daily backup and restore operations, appropriate sections of the book provide step-by-step procedures in runbook format.

• Safeguard mission-critical data in the dot com era
• Plan and implement a scalable backup/restore architecture that meets IT service level agreements
• Includes general advice, case studies, a practical methodology, and example data center runbooks

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Stan Stringfellow is an independent contractor with 20 years of experience as a technical writer. He wrote the original software manuals for the Sun Enterprise 10000 (Starfire), and has done work for many different companies.

Miroslav Klivansky manages the Storage Performance Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. He has helped Sun customers plan Storage solutions for their data centers. He has published and taught in various performance-related areas, and has studied the performance of UNIX systems since 1993.

Michael Barto is a technologist for Sun Microsystems Professional Services working as an IT architect with emphasis on Web-based collaboration and communication. He has over 15 years of system administration experience starting with his first Sun system in 1986.