[wplug] books

[Joe Topjian]

>> For Example, O'Reillys Unix
>> Backup and Recovery. ugh.
>
> I bought this when it came out. What was so bad about it?
> Disclaimer: I've met the author in person.

lol.. meeting is a bit better than being the author.. then I would have 
been embarrased  ;)

Though I do a lot of sysadmin stuff at work and on my personal server, 
backups arent that big of a deal. Maybe because I take them for 
granted. On my personal server, I have a shell script i run that tars 
and gzips all the important stuff and transfers it to my personal 
computer where I can store it on whatever medium. At work we have a 
NetApp which takes snapshots of our systems hourly to monthly.

So when I got the book, I mainly just flipped through the pages going 
'uh huh.. yep..'  and any text I actually started to read I got bored 
with quite fast. It was a combination of the authors writing style and 
that there wasnt anything being covered that I wasnt already familiar 
with.

Now I dont question the author on his knowledge of the practice of 
backing data up (or NAS and SANs for that matter!), but in the end, I 
didnt get much out of that book.. hence in my original post, I asked 
suggestions of books I could actually learn from. Now I know you guys 
have absolutely no clue on what I can and cant learn from books, which 
is why I also put in the bit about 'suggest anything' cause I'll 
probably read whatever anyways  :)

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Joe Topjian
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