How To Install target-restore on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install target-restore on CentOS 8.
What is target-restore
Systemd service to restore the LIO kernel target settings on system restart.
We can use yum or dnf to install target-restore on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install target-restore.
Install target-restore 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 target-restore using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install target-restore
Install target-restore 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 target-restore using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install target-restore
How To Uninstall target-restore on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the target-restore package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove target-restore
target-restore Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/target
/etc/target/backup
/usr/bin/targetctl
/usr/lib/systemd/system/target.service
/usr/share/man/man5/saveconfig.json.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/targetctl.8.gz
/var/target
/var/target/alua
/var/target/pr
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install target-restore on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.