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Top Books on Backup and Disaster Recovery for 2017

Top 7 Books on Backup and Disaster RecoveryLooking to learn more about the backup and disaster recovery space? Look no further. At Solutions Review, we make it our goal to provide you with all the information you need to complete your research. And we have something for everyone: basic info and best practices to help a newbie get acquainted all the way to our Buyer’s Guide for seasoned pros looking to implement a new solution.

And here is a list of some of the top books in the space, if you want some in-depth reading to get into:

1. Principles and Practice of Business Continuity: Tools and Techniques Second Edition, 2016

Are you are a Business Continuity Manager or training for the job? Are you ready to keep the business up and running in the face of emergencies ranging from earthquakes to accidents to fires to computer crashes? In this second edition of Principles and Practice of Business Continuity: Tools and Techniques, Jim Burtles explains six main scenarios. He promises: If you and your organization are prepared to deal with these six generic risks, you will be able to recover from any business disaster.”

2. Backups, Avoiding Computer Disasters on Windows, Mac, Linux: Data safety for work and home, in plain language, 2016

“Are you ready for your computer to blow up? Probably not. The most important thing you can do to protect
your data is to make backups. Whether a computer costs $300, or $3,000, the data on your computer is more valuable than the physical computer. Just think about how much time you spend producing work on the computer: 3 hours a day? If you use it only during workdays, that’s 600 hours of work. That’s a lot of work! And admit it – you use the computer more than three hours a day, five days a week. Think about all your family photos and videos on your phone. Think about the history of your company, or the history of your time at the company. All your successes are on the computer. Think about all the stories you posted to websites. Now, imagine losing all that work to a failed hard disk, or a thief who takes your laptop, or an accidentally dropped phone. You need to back up your data.”

3. Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management by Andrew Hiles, 2011

“Andrew Hiles, FBCI, Editor (2011, John Wiley), ISBN 978-0-470-67014-9. Now more than 10 years old, The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management is a classic book about business risk management and contingency planning. It includes case studies, examples and checklists, and helps simplify the business continuity processes for those new to the profession.”

4. Data Storage Backup and Replication: Effective Data Management to Ensure Optimum Performance and Business Continuity by Nitin Kotwal, 2015

“It’s often said that “you cannot know the value of a thing until it’s lost” that saying has been around for ages and it’s still relevant even in this century. Is your data worth a penny, a thousand or a billion dollars or is it even priceless? You won’t fully know and understand until you lose them. In today’s world, for an organization to protect and minimize risk of losing business availability, measures are required to maintain its continuity. Data is one of the most important asset to any organization. Any impact on its availability, will impact company, both in terms of revenue and reputation.”

5. High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Concepts, Design, Implementation by Klaus Schmidt, 2010

“Companies and institutions depend more than ever on the availability of their Information Technology, and most mission critical business processes are IT-based. Business Continuity is the ability to do business under any circumstances and is an essential requirement faced by modern companies. Both concepts – High Availability and Disaster Recovery – are realized by redundant systems. This book presents requirements, concepts, and realizations of redundant systems on all abstraction levels, and all given examples refer to UNIX and Linux Systems.”

6. Hadoop Backup and Recovery Solutions by Gaurav Barot, 2015

“You will gradually learn about the backup and recovery principles, discover the common failure points in Hadoop, and facts about backing up Hive metadata. A deep dive into the interesting world of Apache HBase will show you different ways of backing up data and will compare them. Going forward, you’ll learn the methods of defining recovery strategies for various causes of failures, failover recoveries, corruption, working drives, and metadata. Also covered are the concepts of Hadoop matrix and MapReduce. Finally, you’ll explore troubleshooting strategies and techniques to resolve failures.”

7Backup Fanatic: How to Ensure Business Continuity by Delivering Continuous Protection, Secured Storage, Data Compliance, and Instant Data Recovery by Domenic Phillip DiSario, 2015

“Backup, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Certainly necessary evils. This book is an easy to use guide to business continuity planning from a professional who has seen the human tendency toward denial trump rational business decision-making. Remember, “Hope is not a strategy”. This is a guide to backing up your personal and business data and outlines how to ensure business continuity by delivering continuous protection, secure storage, data compliance, and instant data recovery. It also outlines the strategy to keep you safe and secure as far as your backup and disaster recovery are concerned.”

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