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Packed with practical, freely-available backup and recovery solutions
for Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X systems — as well as various
databases — this new guide is a complete overhaul of Unix Backup &
Recovery by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new
Backup & Recovery starts with a complete overview of backup philosophy
and design, including the basic backup utilities of tar, dump, cpio,
ntbackup, ditto, and rsync. It then explains several open source backup
products that automate backups using those utilities, including AMANDA,
Bacula, BackupPC, rdiff-backup, and rsnapshot. Backup & Recovery then
explains how to perform bare metal recovery of AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac
OS, Solaris, VMWare, & Windows systems using freely-available utilities.
The book also provides overviews of the current state of the commercial
backup software and hardware market, including overviews of CDP, Data
De-duplication, D2D2T, and VTL technology. Finally, it covers how to
automate the backups of DB2, Exchange, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL,
SQL-Server, and Sybase databases - without purchasing a commercial
For environments of all sizes and budgets, this unique book shows you
how to ensure data protection without resorting to expensive commercial
solutions. You will soon learn to:
- Perform bare metal recovery of any popular open systems platform,
- Utilize valuable but often unknown open source backup products
- Understand the state of commercial backup software, including
- Access the current state of backup hardware, including Virtual Tape
Libraries (VTLs)
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Get noticed. Get discovered.
It’s YourSpace
There are over 90 million profiles on MySpace. How do you make yours stand out? You use these programming tricks and techniques to tweak the look, feel, and content of your profile. You get the inside scoop on hot design and photography. You maximize the effects of HTML and CSS. And, if you happen to be a musician, you check out Chapter 30 to see how MySpace can launch your career. It’s all in here. What are you waiting for? Make it all about you.
Complete code and instructions for these and more MySpace hacks:
* Embedding graphics
* Creating animated images
* Developing your own background
* Building custom cursors
* Changing profile text styles
* Getting kinky with links
* Adding a comments box
* Altering your contact table
* Redesigning the navigation bar
* Making DIV overlays
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Like every other application in Microsoft Office suite, PowerPoint is
loaded with features. So many, in fact, that even veterans don’t know
where to find them all. Microsoft solved this problem in PowerPoint 2007
by redesigning the user interface with a tabbed toolbar that makes
features easy to locate and use. PowerPoint 2007 also boasts improved
graphics, additional templates, the ability to save custom layouts, and
improved collaboration through SharePoint. One thing Microsoft hasn’t
improved is its poor documentation. To learn the ins and outs of all the
features in PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft merely offers online help. If
you’re familiar with previous versions of the program, you may be lost
the first time you fire up the new PowerPoint; or you would be if it
This new book, written specifically for this version of the software,
not only offers the basics of how to create, save, set up, run, and
print a basic bullets-and-background slideshow, but takes you into the
world of multimedia, animation, and interactivity. You’ll learn how to
add pictures, sound, video, animated effects, and controls (buttons and
links) to their slides, along with ways to pull text, spreadsheets, and
animations created in other programs. You can also create your own
reusable design templates and learn to automate repetitive tasks with
macros. Learn how to take advantage of advanced functions (such as
adding custom background images) that existed in previous PowerPoint
versions, but were so cleverly hidden that few people ever found them.
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