How To Install bdsync on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bdsync on Fedora 34.
What is bdsync
Bdsync can be used to synchronize block devices over a network. It generates a “binary patchfile” in an efficient way by comparing MD5 checksums of 32k blocks of the local block device LOCDEV and the remote block device REMDEV. This binary patchfile can be sent to the remote machine and applied to its block device DSTDEV, after which the local blockdev LOCDEV and the remote block device REMDEV are synchronized. bdsync was built to do the only thing rsync isn’t able to do block devices.
We can use yum or dnf to install bdsync on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bdsync.
Install bdsync 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 bdsync using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bdsync
Install bdsync 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 bdsync using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bdsync
How To Uninstall bdsync on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the bdsync package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bdsync
bdsync Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/bdsync
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/0593af199de982f4ce7cdd5acfbb8043c6fe98
/usr/share/doc/bdsync
/usr/share/doc/bdsync/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bdsync
/usr/share/licenses/bdsync/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/bdsync.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bdsync on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.