How To Install backupninja on Fedora 34

backupninja is Lightweight, extensible backup system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install backupninja on Fedora 34.

What is `backupninja`

Backupninja allows you to coordinate system backup by dropping a few simple configuration files into /etc/backup.d/. Most programs you might use for making backups don’t have their own configuration file format. Backupninja provides a centralized way to configure and schedule many different backup utilities. It allows for secure, remote, incremental file system backup (via rdiff-backup), compressed incremental data, backup system and hardware info, encrypted remote backups (via duplicity), safe backup of MySQL/PostgreSQL databases, subversion or trac repositories, burn CD/DVDs or create ISOs, incremental rsync with hard-linking.

We can use yum or dnf to install backupninja on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install backupninja.

Install backupninja on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install backupninja

Install backupninja on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install backupninja using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install backupninja

How To Uninstall backupninja on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the backupninja package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove backupninja

backupninja Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/backup.d
/etc/backupninja.conf
/etc/cron.d/backupninja
/etc/logrotate.d/backupninja
/usr/libexec/backupninja
/usr/libexec/backupninja/easydialog
/usr/libexec/backupninja/parseini
/usr/libexec/backupninja/tools
/usr/libexec/backupninja/vserver
/usr/sbin/backupninja
/usr/sbin/ninjahelper
/usr/share/backupninja
/usr/share/backupninja/borg
/usr/share/backupninja/borg.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/dup
/usr/share/backupninja/dup.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/example.borg
/usr/share/backupninja/example.dup
/usr/share/backupninja/example.maildir
/usr/share/backupninja/example.makecd
/usr/share/backupninja/example.mysql
/usr/share/backupninja/example.pgsql
/usr/share/backupninja/example.rdiff
/usr/share/backupninja/example.rsync
/usr/share/backupninja/example.sh
/usr/share/backupninja/example.svn
/usr/share/backupninja/example.sys
/usr/share/backupninja/example.trac
/usr/share/backupninja/maildir
/usr/share/backupninja/makecd
/usr/share/backupninja/makecd.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/mysql
/usr/share/backupninja/mysql.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/pgsql
/usr/share/backupninja/pgsql.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/rdiff
/usr/share/backupninja/rdiff.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/rsync
/usr/share/backupninja/sh
/usr/share/backupninja/svn
/usr/share/backupninja/sys
/usr/share/backupninja/sys.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/tar
/usr/share/backupninja/tar.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/trac
/usr/share/doc/backupninja
/usr/share/doc/backupninja/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/backupninja/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/backupninja/FAQ.md
/usr/share/doc/backupninja/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/backupninja/README.md
/usr/share/doc/backupninja/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/backupninja
/usr/share/licenses/backupninja/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/backupninja.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ninjahelper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/backup.d.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/backupninja.conf.5.gz

References

backupninja website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install backupninja on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.