The book also contains absolutely inclusive archive techniques that allow you to restore large databases and file systems from backup media. Unix Backup & Recovery includes a lot of general "recommended practices" advice and lots of scary stories about lost files (and more than a few about heroic system administrators who saved the day, or at least the data). The scope of 'special reserve system and recovery issues (including Solaris, HP-UX, Oracle, Sybase, and Informix) are invaluable, such as coverage of techniques to extract information from ancient, obsolete backup media -. David Wall Topics covered: Strategies to protect the contents and availability of Unix systems, particularly those running Solaris, Linux, Compaq True-64 Unix, HP-UX, IRIX, and AIX. Coverage also includes backup and recovery software (free and commercial), and mechanisms to protect and improve the major database management systems.