How To Install target-restore on CentOS 8

target-restore is Systemd service for targetcli/rtslib

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.