How To Install bacula-storage on CentOS 8

bacula-storage is Bacula storage daemon files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bacula-storage on CentOS 8.

What is bacula-storage

Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different computers. It is based on a client/server architecture. This package contains the storage daemon, the daemon responsible for writing the data received from the clients onto tape drives or other mass storage devices.

We can use yum or dnf to install bacula-storage on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bacula-storage.

Install bacula-storage on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install bacula-storage using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bacula-storage

Install bacula-storage on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install bacula-storage using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bacula-storage

How To Uninstall bacula-storage on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove bacula-storage

bacula-storage Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf
/etc/sysconfig/bacula-sd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/e5528fe2b059e04d9153103217173f292777f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/2e3fca0534fd8a9a862002d25c79a8c8a54bbb
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/231240bf3070d42bd583246af193645848cd7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/1dccdce8072884765a30f313bb24e5451e4ee5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/03626347552a5a3cb05ac06adfadf7f63871ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/474370d001a187da687ce3229ba1c6ff0f3240
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/3779f783e86cc046ff2d463a8c3808ad862d81
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bacula-sd.service
/usr/libexec/bacula/disk-changer
/usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer
/usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer.conf
/usr/libexec/bacula/tapealert
/usr/sbin/bacula-sd
/usr/sbin/bcopy
/usr/sbin/bextract
/usr/sbin/bls
/usr/sbin/bscan
/usr/sbin/bsdjson
/usr/sbin/btape
/usr/share/man/man8/bacula-sd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bcopy.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bextract.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bls.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bscan.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/btape.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bacula-storage on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.