RISK MANAGEMENT AND

FUTURE EXPANSION OF
LINUX SERVER
SERVER MANAGEMENT

Data Need To Be Backup

The minimum directory to be keep is the users own files

/user

In order to know which files to keep from /etc directory,

use an application such as etckeeper that can track
history of changes to /etc and who made them.
The rest directory to be backup are:

/usr/local
/usr/share
/home
/var
/etc
/root

Types Of Backup

Full Backup
Differential Backup
Incremental Backup
Imaging Backup

FULL BACKUP

Backup of every file on a file system, whether that

file has changed or not.
A full backup takes longer to accomplish and
requires the most storage space on the backup
media, but it also provides the quickest restore
times.
A full backup should also be performed before any
major planned changes to a system.
The only advantage with full backup mechanism is
that the restoration process takes minimum time

DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP

Backup of every file on a file system which has

changed since the last full backup.

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thurs
Fri

Full Backup

Differential Backup

DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP

A differential backup is not as fast as an

incremental backup, but it is faster than a full
backup.
A differential backup requires more storage space
than an incremental backup, but less than a full
backup.
A differential backup requires more time to restore
than a full backup, but not as much time to restore
as an incremental backup.

INCREMENTAL BACKUP

Backup of every file on a file system which has

changed since the last backup.

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thurs
Fri

Full Backup

Incremental Backup

INCREMENTAL BACKUP

An incremental backup is the fastest backup and

requires the least storage space on the backup
media.
However, incremental backups also require the
longest time and many tapes to restore.
Incremental backups should be used only in
environments where backup time or backup storage
media are extremely constrained.

IMAGING BACKUP

A disk image is a single file or storage device

containing the complete contents and structure
representing a data storage medium or device.

IMAGING BACKUP SOFTWARE

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EXPANSION OF NETWORK SERVERS

Memory size
Hard disk size
Processor speed

SERVER TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

Server Virtualization
Cloud Computing
Online Storage
Virtual Desktop

SERVER VIRTUALIZATION

Server virtualization is the

masking of server resources,
including the number and
identity of individual physical
servers, processors, and
operating systems, from
server users.
There are three popular
approaches to server
virtualization:

the virtual machine model,

the paravirtual machine
model
virtualization at the operating
system (OS) layer.

CLOUD COMPUTING

Computation, software,
data access, and
storage services that
do not require enduser knowledge of the
physical location and
configuration of the
system that delivers
the services.

ONLINE STORAGE

VIRTUAL DESKTOP

virtual ones housed in data centers.

concept ties into mobile computing, virtualization
and cloud computing.