Chapter 10. Techniques for Backup and Recovery

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When hardware components or security measures fail, every administrator must be prepared to recover a system as quickly and efficiently as possible. Preparing for a disaster means having a solid backup procedure and a well-tested recovery process.

Because you can’t always detect when a failure will occur, it is important to create backups on a regular basis depending on how often the data changes and how much time it takes to complete the backup. All the files on the system don’t have to be included in every backup. Consider how often the files change. For example, operating system ...

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