Book details of 'Windows Nt Backup & Restore'

Title	Windows Nt Backup & Restore
Author(s)	Jody Leber, Robert Denn
ISBN	1565922727
Language	English
Published	June 1998
Publisher	O'Reilly & Associates

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
It may be thought that backup is a relatively simple process. Start the backup program (hopefully remembering to stick a tape in the drive first) and walk away. In fact, there are a number of other factors to be considered. Chapter one looks at backup basics, and it was enough to point out that the book was going to be rather limited in scope. For one thing, the material only looks at tape as a backup medium. For another, the emphasis does not seem to be on backing up of an NT workstation or server itself, but the design of a backup system for a whole network. While this topic is certainly worthy of a book, it does mean that a number of areas are not going to be addressed. Chapter two mentions some factors other than backup that can contribute to or impede system availability, but not in useful detail. A few special NT files and directories are reviewed in chapter three. The beginning of planning starts in chapter four with a number of questions to ask. Aside from eight pages of tables resulting from some rather obvious calculations to do with transfer speeds, the material is quite reasonable. Chapter five adds to this some policy issues to address. The inquiries chapter six suggests making in regard to backup software very quickly become trite, and start to miss some areas of concern. Moving into backup software itself, the tape backup utility (ntbackup) included with NT is covered in chapter seven. Chapter eight looks at some commercial packages in fair detail. Unfortunately, the initial description of the products is neither terribly clear nor consistently formatted. The subsequent comparison table is likely more helpful. Chapter nine addresses tape drive and tape library hardware, spending a lot of time on SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) considerations. Testing is discussed in chapter ten, but mostly in terms of what to test for, rather than advice on how to do it. A variety of implementation suggestions, on a variety of topics, are made in chapter eleven, and this continues into chapter twelve. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1998
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