How To Install diaser on Fedora 34

diaser is Geo-data replication long-term archive system (WAN vault)

Introduction

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

What is diaser

An advanced disk based backup volume accumulator, replication and management system for HE and SME. A quick and low-cost way to make an environment more robust and data more accessible by archiving in multiple places. This replication also provides fast retrieval of archived data from all node hosting locations. A Perl installer creates the system. Nodes can be dedicated to storage or used for existing services over unused bandwidth. DIASER works in user space over SSH. The software is based on DIAP/LTASP which is a storage architecture designed to structure months to years of long term sustainable archiving space including retrospective archiving.

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

Install diaser 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 diaser using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install diaser

Install diaser 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 diaser using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install diaser

How To Uninstall diaser on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove diaser

diaser Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/sbin/diaser
/usr/share/doc/diaser
/usr/share/doc/diaser/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/diaser/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/diaser/README
/usr/share/doc/diaser/diaser.conf.sample
/usr/share/doc/diaser/manual.html
/usr/share/doc/diaser/manual.pdf
/usr/share/doc/diaser/manual.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/diaser.1.gz

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Summary

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