Curriculum Design and Instruction To Teach
Linux Administration: Basic Administration:
Backups:
Author: Charles Hayes:
This curriculum design and
instruction is for the Linux
administrator who must
efficiently solve technical
problems and maximize the
reliability and performance
of a production environment.
It addresses today's most
important Linux distributions
and most powerful new administrative
tools. It spells out detailed best
practices for every facet of system
administration, including storage
management, network design and
administration, web hosting,
software configuration management,
performance analysis, Windows
interoperability,m and much more.
Systems administrators will expecially
appreciate the thourough and up-to-date
subject of such topics such as DNS, LDAP,
secrutiy, and the Management of IT service
organizations:
Special Features Include:
* Phases For Conducting A Needs Assessment:
* Curriculum Design Supplement:
* Curriculum Design Plan:
* Lesson Plans:
* Instructional Goals:
* Instructional Objectives:
* Instructional Activities:
* Instructional Evaluation Techniques:
* Standard Vocabulary:
* A Limited Glimpse:
Topics Include:
* Basic Administration:
@ Backups:
A. Introduction:
B. Motherhood and apple pie:
1. Perform all dumps from one machine:
2. Label your media:
3. Pick a reasonable backup interval:
4. Choose filesystems carefully:
5. Make daily dumps fit on one
piece of media:
6. Make filesystems smaller than your
dump device:
7. Keep media off-site:
8. Protect your backups:
9. Limit activity during dumps:
10. Verify your media:
11. Develop a media life cycle:
12. Design your data for backups:
13. Prepare for the worst:
C. Backup devices and media:
1. Optical media: CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW,
and DVD-RAM:
2. Removable hard disks
(USB and FireWire):
3. Small tape drives: Smm and DDS/DAT:
4. DLT/S-DLT:
5. AIT and SAIT:
6. VXA/VXA-X:
7. LTO:
8. Jukeboxes, stackers, and
tape libraries:
9. Hard disks:
10. Summary of media types:
11. What to buy:
D. Setting up an incremental backup
regime with dump:
1. Dumping filesystems:
2. Dump sequences:
E. Restoring from dumps with restore:
1. Restoring individual files:
2. Restoring entire filesystems:
F. Dumping and restoring for upgrades:
G. Using other archiving programs:
1. tar: package files:
2. cpio: archiving utility from ancient
times:
3. dd: twiddle bits:
H. Using multiple files on a single tape:
I. Bacula:
1. The Bacula model:
2. Setting up Bacula:
3. Installing the database and Bacula daemons:
4. Configuring the Bacula daemons:
5. bacula-dir.conf: director configuration:
6. bacula-sd.conf: storage daemon configuration:
7. bconsole.conf: console configuration:
8. Installing and configuring the client
file daemon:
9. Starting the Bacula daemons:
10. Adding media to pools:
11. Running a manual backup:
12. Running a restore job:
13. Monitoring and debugging Bacula
configurations:
14. Alternatives to Bacula:
J. Commerical backup products:
1. ADSM/TSM:
2. Veritas:
3. Other alternatives:
K. Recommended reading:
* STATE OF THE ART CURRICULUM DESIGN:
* NEW:
* REFERENCES:
* ILLUSTRATIONS:
* PHOTOS:
* PAPERBACK:
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* TITLE PAGE:
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