Info on VLDB/DW

Good Morning All, I was hoping someone here can point me to pertinent documents which address (DW). I know there are tons of online docs via google or metalink but was wondering if people her had their own favorites. Im particullary interested in nutshell concepts of:

1 reasonable maximum datafile sizes & physical disk striping 2 getting data from prod to dw
3 various partitioning
4 stratigies for backup + recovery

Thanks
Bob

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