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 May 2006 • Volume 15 • Number 5
Features
Restoring Your Confidence in Oracle Backups • John Ouellette
Ouellette describes how to back up and restore a copy of your production database in order to validate your restores and test new procedures without affecting your current production system or data.
Production MySQL Backups in the Enterprise: Part I • Thomas Weeks
Weeks discusses various backup methods and tools and provides tips on how to choose which one is right for you.
Backups with rdiff-backup • Kevin Fenzi
Fenzi provides an overview of rdiff-backup, a backup tool that combines the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup into one bandwidth-efficent application.
BackFire: A Flexible Backup Tool • Robert Sciuk
Sciuk introduces BackFire, a solution for a heterogeneous network tool that can back up Windows shares, local directories, or Linux, BSD, or proprietary Unix NFS links.
High-Availability Clustering with Sun Cluster • Justin Buhler
Buhler describes how he tweaked the Sun Cluster setup used during the recent XX 2006 Olympic Winter Games to provide greater reliability and availability.
Implementing Cascading Shutdown Scripts • Owen Becker
Becker shares a set of scripts that can be used to automate the shutdown of a network.
Portable JumpStart Environment II: Adding Kickstart • Michael R. Sbailo Jr.
Previously, Sbailo explained how to take a Linux-based laptop and configure it to jumpstart Solaris machines. In this article, he explains how to give that same laptop the functionality to build Red Hat machines.
Getting to Know Your Network — Part IV • Luis Muñoz
In the final article of his series, Muñoz shows how to put the previously described tools to use in creating a visual representation of a network.
Columns
Questions and Answers • Amy Rich
Sorting with the Schwartzian Transform • Randal L. Schwartz
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