Author: T Tyagi
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Company: BPB Publications  (2004-11-15)
ISBN: 8176569224
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If you have a business or a nonprofit organization, or if you?re the one responsible for information systems at such an operation, you know that disaster recovery planning is pretty vital. But it?s easy to put it off. After all, where do you start?

IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies shows you how to get started by creating a safety net while you work out the details of your major plan. The right plan will get your business back on track quickly, whether you're hit by a tornado or a disgruntled employee with super hacking powers. Here's how to assess the situation, develop both short-term and long-term plans, and keep your plans updated.

This easy-to-understand guide will help you

• Prepare your systems, processes, and people for an organized response to disaster when it strikes
• Identify critical IT systems and develop a long-range strategy
• Select and train your disaster recovery team
• Conduct a Business Impact Analysis
• Determine risks to your business from natural or human-made causes
• Get management support
• Create appropriate plan documents
• Test your plan

Some disasters get coverage on CNN, and some just create headaches for the affected organization. With IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies, you?ll be prepared for anything from hackers to hurricanes!

Author: Peter, CISA, CISSP Gregory
Paperback:  360 pages
Company: For Dummies  (2007-12-26)
ISBN: 0470039736
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Has Disaster Struck?

If you're reading this, Something Very Bad may have already happened to your PC. Or maybe you're wisely looking ahead to any of several what-if scenarios. Either way, PC Disaster and Recovery is the book you nee recover from today's disaster and not lose sleep over the ones that lie around the corner. No matter how dire the situation, expert, step-by-step instructions will keep you cool and focused and get you back on your feet. Coverage includes:
* Understanding how hardware, OS, and applications work together
* Limiting your risks
* Assembling a PC recovery resource kit
* Drafting a disaster recovery plan
* Detecting, analyzing, and diagnosing problems
* Restarting a problem PC
* Fixing upgrading problems
* Stabilizing your operating system
* Understanding and troubleshooting hardware failures
* Avoiding power and overheating problems
* Diagnosing, monitoring, and troubleshooting performance problems
* Recovering lost and damaged files and applications
* Recovering from small-network disasters
* Finding help online
* Knowing when and how to start from scratch
* Resurrecting a dead hard drive
* Knowing when to call professionals

Author: Kate J. Chase
Paperback:  491 pages
Company: Sybex  (2003-01-13)
ISBN: 078214182X
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Companies and other organizations depend more than ever on the availability of their Information Technology, and most mission critical business processes are IT-based processes. Business continuity is the ability to do business under any circumstances and is an essential requirement modern companies are facing. High availability and disaster recovery are contributions of the IT to fulfill this requirement. And companies will be confronted with such demands to an even greater extent in the future, since their credit ratings will be lower without such precautions.

Both, high availability and disaster recovery,  are realized by redundant systems. Redundancy can and should be implemented on different abstraction levels: from the hardware, the operating system and middleware components up to the backup computing center in case of a disaster. This book presents requirements, concepts, and realizations of redundant systems on all abstraction levels, and all given examples refer to UNIX and Linux systems.

Author: Klaus Schmidt
Hardcover:  410 pages
Company: Springer  (2006-07-11)
ISBN: 3540244603
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Detailing what can go wrong in backup and recovery and how this applies to the various backup methods available, this book couples that information with recovery and business continuity tactics played out over the backdrop of various real-world scenarios. Covered is how freezes, corruption, and loss affects documents, equipment, and day-to-day business activities, and the cost of downtime and job re-creation is explained in a way that builds the best budget for availability, backup, and recovery. Protection and restoration of user data and from various locations and times is also covered, as well as how to keep a business running after a power failure, network failure, or other unforeseen event.

Author: Dorian Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop
Paperback:  725 pages
Company: Schaser-Vartan Books  (2003-07-01)
ISBN: 0972903909
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Many would argue that the single, most important job of a SQL Server database administrator is to be able to recover your database in the event of loss or damage. Pro SQL Server Disaster Recovery helps you meet that goal by showing you how to think about and plan for potential problems. You?ll learn to anticipate and reduce the likelihood of a disaster, and to mitigate the effects of a disaster when one does occur. Perhaps most importantly, you?ll learn how to prepare so that you can return a system to its normal state quickly, ensuring system availability and the continued success and operation of your business.

Many SQL Server features and technologies are, or can be put to good use in disaster recovery planning. In this book, you?ll learn about powerful tools and features ? such as Database Snapshots and Mirroring ? for data backup and disaster recovery that are present in SQL Server 2005, and that are enhanced in SQL Server 2008. Also covered are common issues to expect when using these features. This book explores your options by examining the technical details of disaster recovery features and then applying that knowledge to practical scenarios.

There?s a human side to disaster recovery planning as well. Like few other activities, disaster recovery planning requires that you work closely with a wide variety of people from all across your organization. People skills are as critical to disaster recovery planning as technical skills, and perhaps more so. This book does not leave you in the dark, but provides sound advice on how to keep disaster recovery planning projects on track, how to avoid dangerous scope creep, and how to work effectively with the variety of personality types that you will encounter.

Disaster recovery planning is really about sleep. When you get the call at 3:00 am that your database is lost, don?t wake up with that icy feeling in your veins. Instead wake up with confidence that you have a plan in place, a plan that you?ve practiced, that management has bought into, a plan that you can execute even while half?asleep to get your database, your company, and your job back on track.

What you?ll learn

This book shows you how to implement an effective disaster recovery strategy for SQL Server 2005 databases. It covers:

• Real?world examples of data loss and what might have been done to prevent it
• A systematic, problem?based approach to designing a disaster recovery plan
• Pitfalls one might encounter, and how to deal with them
• Team dynamics, and the soft?side of disaster planning
• New technology in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 that takes disaster recovery beyond the simple backup/recovery plan
• When and why to use disaster recovery features, as opposed to just describing how they work

Who is this book for?

SQL Server database administrators

Author: James Luetkehoelter
Hardcover:  368 pages
Company: Apress  (2008-03-24)
ISBN: 1590599675
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As long as networks of Microsoft Windows systems are managed,administered, and used by people, security incidents will occur. Windowssystems are highly pervasive throughout the entire computing infrastructure,from home and school systems, to high-end e-commerce sites. In contrast tothis pervasiveness, information regarding conducting effective incidentresponse and forensic audit activities on Windows systems is limited. Whilethere are many security books available, none focus specifically on Windowssecurity. There are also resources available online, but they are scattered andoften too general. This book is a compilation of all the information currentlyavailable on this subject. It is for anyone who manages or administers Windowssystems (including home users) and needs to know how to react when theysuspect that an incident has occurred. It guides the reader throughinformation, tools, and techniques that are required to conduct incidentresponse or a live forensics audit activities.By providing the necessarybackground for understanding how incidents occur and how data can behidden on compromised systems, the reader will have a better understanding ofthe "whys" and "hows" of incident response and forensic audit activities. *It isimportant to note that regulatory issues are also pushing organizations towardbetter security and incident preparedness policies.

Author: Harlan Carvey
Paperback:  480 pages
Company: Addison-Wesley Professional  (2004-07-31)
ISBN: 0321200985
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Author: Kris Kaspersky
Paperback:  370 pages
Company: A-List Publishing  (2006-05-01)
ISBN: 1931769567
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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 ofbackup hardware, including Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs)

Author: W. Curtis Preston
Paperback:  760 pages Illustrated
Company: O'Reilly Media, Inc.  (2007-01-03)
ISBN: 0596102461
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Now the software secrets that have been the exclusive domain of hackers and other computer-savvy surfers are out of the bag. With this book, Norbert Zaenglein, author of the best-selling book Disk Detective, takes these insider secrets mainstream. In straightforward, nontechnical terms, you?ll get the low-down on an amazing array of computer resources: electronic document shredders, a new electronic truth serum that rivals the polygraph, detection and identification of electronic intruders, professional forensics software and image enhancement software to assist in law enforcement investigations, file viewers that provide instant access to files that can?t be opened, software that searches the ?Net to uncover what is being said about you and where, all-in-one computer security programs and much more. Whether you want to protect confidential material from prying eyes or you?re the one doing the prying, Zaenglein presents you with the latest high-tech tools to get the job done.

Author: Norbert Zaenglein
Paperback:  128 pages
Company: Paladin Press  (2000-07)
ISBN: 1581600887
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