Windows NT Backup & Restore (Paperback)

by Jody Leber (Author)

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Product Description
As the number of mission-critical applications running on Windows NT grows, it becomes vital for administrators to safeguard data from loss or corruption. While a myriad of Microsoft and third-party software and hardware solutions are currently available (and more are becoming available every day), there is very little guidance for the administrator faced with the problem. Beginning with the need for a workable recovery policy and ways to translate that policy into requirements, Windows NT Backup & Restore presents the reader with practical guidelines for setting up an effective backup system in both small and large environments. This book covers the native NT utilities and also includes a discussion of major third-party hardware and software. Numerous checklists help guide you through the various decisions you need to make to implement an effective backup system.

About the Author
Jody Leber has more than 12 years of systems design and integration experience both in industry and government. She comes from a UNIX background, and recently she has been translating those skills to a Windows NT installation for a Wall Street financial firm. Jody Leber is the chief technical officer for Genorff Engineering Inc., where she specializes in mass storage systems, performance tuning, and scalable system administration issues. Jody earned a B.S. in computer science from Northern Arizona University in 1984, an M.S. in business administration from East Texas State University in 1987, and an M.S. in computer science from the Naval Post Graduate School in 1994. Before becoming a founding member of Genorff Engineering, Jody was vice president, Unix systems developer at a major Wall Street financial firm. Jody's career spans a wide cross section of the computer industry, and she has held numerous engineering positions with both the government and private sectors. Jody lives with her faithful dog Freda and cat Murphy in Summit, New Jersey, and struggles with learning the soprano sax.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly; 1 edition (May 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565922727
• ISBN-13: 978-1565922723
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,942,176 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you are responsible for NT Servers, get this book, July 2, 1998

By A Customer

This book is excellent. I work on an extremely large backup project (1000+ servers), and I found that Ms. Leber accurately covered all of the issues that we've had to deal with (both technical and non-technical). The book contains a wealth of information about backup issues for NT, but it also contains alot of general information that would be relevant to backing up any platform, so it would probably be useful to people who were responsible for backups in general.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DON'T WASTE TIME READING THIS BOOK!, December 27, 2002

By A Customer

I had a particular objective in mind in choosing this book for review. I am not terribly familiar with NT and having been forced to install an NT server for a customer recently, I wanted a reference on the backup procedures - so serious am I about the importance of backups. I need not have bothered!
There are twelve chapters and three appendices. Only three chapters are specific to NT and one of these deals with software from third parties (Arcserve, ADSM, Backup Express, etc.). The other chapters are very general and deal with concepts that are not at all peculiar to NT.

So, much as I respect the O'Reilly publications and much as I fear the consequences of badly managed backups, I cannot recommend this book to anyone who is other than a complete novice. Most of the material (backup regimes, network considerations, hardware devices) is either old-hat, readily available elsewhere or common sense. It is certainly not peculiar to NT. Even recommending it to beginners leaves me in a dilemma - beginners should not be made responsible for backing up a critical server and if the server is not critical then the on-line, NT help screens are probably all that is needed. Certainly, I found them sufficient.

For the level of user at which this book is aimed, I think the main problem is emphasising the importance of backups per se.

(Personally I adopt a military stance and become a martinet!) This might take a book on psychology or persuasion, not on the performance of DLT. Ms. Leber should not be writing books, she should be heading to see a shrink.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good overview, look for details elsewhere, August 19, 2007

By	Amanda L. Jones "RedNeckTech" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a great book to give you a starting place when starting a backup project - if your looking for in depth WinNT information, you'll have to find another book, or ask in a forum.