How To Install bareos-storage-tape on Debian 10

Learn how to install bareos-storage-tape on Debian 10 with this tutorial. bareos-storage-tape is Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced - storage daemon tape support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bareos-storage-tape on Debian 10.

What is bareos-storage-tape

bareos-storage-tape is:

Bareos is a set of programs to manage backup, recovery and verification of data across a network of computers of different kinds.

The storage daemon performs the storage and recovery of the file attributes and data to the physical media; in other words, it is responsible for reading and writing the backups.

It runs on the machine which has access to the backup device(s) - usually a tape drive, but alternatively other storage media, such as files.

This adds the tape specific support files for the storage daemon.

There are three methods to install bareos-storage-tape on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bareos-storage-tape Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bareos-storage-tape using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bareos-storage-tape

Install bareos-storage-tape Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bareos-storage-tape using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bareos-storage-tape

Install bareos-storage-tape Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install bareos-storage-tape using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bareos-storage-tape

How To Uninstall bareos-storage-tape on Debian 10

To uninstall only the bareos-storage-tape package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bareos-storage-tape

Uninstall bareos-storage-tape And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bareos-storage-tape and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bareos-storage-tape

Remove bareos-storage-tape Configurations and Data

To remove bareos-storage-tape configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bareos-storage-tape

Remove bareos-storage-tape configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bareos-storage-tape configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bareos-storage-tape

Dependencies

bareos-storage-tape have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bareos-storage-tape package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.