How To Install dirvish on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dirvish on Fedora 34.
What is dirvish
Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network backup system. With dirvish you can maintain a set of complete images of your filesystems with unattended creation and expiration. A dirvish backup vault is like a time machine for your data.
We can use yum or dnf to install dirvish on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dirvish.
Install dirvish 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 dirvish using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dirvish
Install dirvish 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 dirvish using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dirvish
How To Uninstall dirvish on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the dirvish package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dirvish
dirvish Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/dirvish
/usr/bin/dirvish
/usr/bin/dirvish-expire
/usr/bin/dirvish-locate
/usr/bin/dirvish-runall
/usr/share/doc/dirvish
/usr/share/doc/dirvish/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/dirvish/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/dirvish/FAQ.html
/usr/share/doc/dirvish/RELEASE.html
/usr/share/doc/dirvish/TODO.html
/usr/share/man/man5/dirvish.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dirvish-expire.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dirvish-locate.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dirvish-runall.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dirvish.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dirvish on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.