How To Install dar on CentOS 8
dar is Software for making/restoring incremental CD/DVD backups
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dar on CentOS 8.
What is dar
DAR is a command line tool to backup a directory tree and files. DAR is able to make differential backups, split them over a set of disks or files of a given size, use compression, filter files or subtrees to be saved or not saved, directly access and restore given files. DAR is also able to handle extented attributes, and can make remote backups through an ssh session for example. Finally, DAR handles save and restore of hard and symbolic links.
We can use yum or dnf to install dar on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dar.
Install dar 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 dar using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dar
Install dar 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 dar using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dar
How To Uninstall dar on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dar package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dar
dar Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/darrc
/usr/bin/dar
/usr/bin/dar_cp
/usr/bin/dar_manager
/usr/bin/dar_slave
/usr/bin/dar_split
/usr/bin/dar_xform
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/73ee95fc8eb42a8c79eac66bb6913a53236b94
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/658face8fa7dd25a98a5e4c02016214056c35e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/2e5294c06e6c7692e3d5f2b3726d0dfe66d816
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/19e5469c1b48fcccdcfeee37cc0c3ecabf4b2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/088e716ae87f5d3efe0ae3941399d7addf6246
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/a9a589c3658344c81ed88fdcb4f0f6ac6de916
/usr/share/doc/dar
/usr/share/doc/dar/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/dar/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/dar/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/dar/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/dar/README
/usr/share/doc/dar/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/dar/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/dar/TODO
/usr/share/doc/dar/html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/COMMAND_LINE
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/Doxyfile
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/FAQ.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/Features.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/Good_Backup_Practice.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/Known_Bugs.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/Limitations.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/Notes.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/README
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/Tutorial.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/api_tutorial.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/authentification.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/dar-catalog.dtd
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/dar_doc.jpg
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/dar_key.txt
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/dar_s_doc.jpg
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/downloading.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/from_sources.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/man
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/man/index.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/mini-howto
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/mini-howto/README
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/mini-howto/dar-differential-backup-mini-howto.en.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/mini-howto/dar-differential-backup-mini-howto.es.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/mini-howto/dar-differential-backup-mini-howto.it.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/mini-howto/index.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/old_dar_key.txt
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/portable_cp
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/presentation.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/python
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/python/libdar_test.py
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/JH-dar-make_user_backup.sh
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/JH-readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/JH_dar_archiver.options
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/JH_darrc
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/MyBackup.sh.tar.gz
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/PN_backup-root.options
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/PN_backup-root.sh
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/PN_backup-storage.options
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/PN_backup-storage.sh
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/PN_ftpbackup.sh
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/Patrick_Nagel_Note.txt
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/README
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/automatic_backup
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/automatic_backup.txt
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/available_space.duc
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/cdbackup.sh
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/cluster_digital_backups.sh
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/cluster_digital_readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/dar_backup
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/dar_backups.sh
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/dar_par.dcf
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/dar_par_create.duc
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/dar_par_test.duc
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/dar_rqck.bash
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/darrc_sample
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/date_past_N_days
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/etc_darrc
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/index.html
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/pause_every_n_slice.duc
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/samples/sample1.txt
/usr/share/doc/dar/html/usage_notes.html
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/dar.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/dar.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/dar.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dar_cp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dar_manager.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dar_slave.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dar_split.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dar_xform.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dar on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.