Chapter 38. Planning Fault Tolerance and Avoidance

Even the most optimistic system administrator knows that sooner or later he will be faced with a major problem. In Chapter 36, we covered disaster recovery planning in depth, and you should refer to that chapter for information on how to prepare for major problems and build a disaster recovery plan to respond quickly and efficiently to major trouble. But as exhilarating as it might be to work through a major problem and successfully recover from it, it’s far better to avoid major as much as possible.

This chapter focuses on the hardware and software tools that help you to build ...

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