Managing Data Loss
One of the most critical assets of any company is its data, whether it consists of financials, customer demographics, or email. Losing a few files here and there is commonplace, and system administrators can mitigate most damage with prudent backups. But restoring entire file systems and databases can take quite some time, during which users can't access that data. Data loss can occur for a variety of reasons, some of which are listed here:
Hardware failure
Human error (such as gross misuse of rm–rf)
Malicious behavior (such as a hacker or virus)
Operating system crash
Inconsistent backups
Many causes of data loss can be prevented. Chapter 10, “Providing High Availability in Your Unix System,” describes many different methods, ...
Get Unix® System Management Primer Plus now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
