Books: A User's Report
Elizabeth Zinkann
Searching for information is a primary concern in computer technology. Most professionals have favorite references of one type or another. Computer professionals often seem to either be reading a book, or writing something via computer keyboard and terminal. My recent searching yielded a book on high availability, a problem solver, a command reference, and a Web server book. Their respective titles, authors, and publishers are: Blueprints for High Availability: Designing Resilient Distributed Systems by Evan Marcus and Hal Stern (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), The Linux Problem Solver: Simple Solutions for System Administrators by Brian Ward (No Starch Press), Linux Desk Reference by Scott Hawkins (Prentice Hall, Open Source Technology Series), and Apache Server Unleashed by Rich Bowen, Ken Coar, et al. (SAMS Publishing). (Note: I reviewed The Linux Problem Solver: Simple Solutions for System Administrators in a proof format. Therefore, the page count may differ from the final publication.)
Blueprints for High Availability:
Designing Resilient Distributed Systems
Evan Marcus and Hal Stern
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISBN 0-471-35601-8
344 Pages
$49.99
http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/
The inevitable disaster, whether flood, fire, power failure, or mechanical malfunction, emphasizes the need for both backup/recovery plans and contingency plans. Although the concepts are closely related, the latter keeps a system up and running; the former restores the system to its state prior to any interruption.
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