Re: [SAGE] Linux Backup Software -- HELP needed infinding a reasonable one

[Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>]

At 10:51 PM +0000 2004/03/08, Dan Foster wrote:

>  I can also vouch for Mr. Preston's book even though I don't own a copy; I
>  remember his research while he was writing it, and he does a lot of work
>  with various solutions and does talks about them (IIRC). He's pretty much
>  "Dr. Backup" ;)

	I do own a copy.  However, I came to respect Curt as "Mr. Backup" 
long before that.  He was the final link in the chain of knowledge 
regarding backups at Collective Technologies, which went through some 
pretty damn good people.  But if you had a question and none of them 
knew the answer, then Curtis would -- or no one would.  We were also 
lucky enough to have Steve "Mr. Perl" Potter.

	Curt has come a long way since then (having also written the 
excellent "Using SANs and NAS", also published by O'Reilly), and I 
guess he really is "Dr. Backup" by now.


	See his web site at <http://www.storagemountain.com/>, if you're 
interested.  In particular, he has a list of books in various 
subjects that he recommends at 
<http://www.storagemountain.com/toc-storage-books.html>.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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