How To Install duply on Fedora 34

duply is Wrapper for duplicity

Introduction

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

What is `duply`

duply is a frontend for the mighty duplicity magic. It simplifies running duplicity with cron or on command line by - keeping recurring settings in profiles per backup job - automated import/export of keys between profile and keyring - enabling batch operations e.g. backup_verify_purge - executing pre/post scripts - precondition checking for flawless duplicity operation Since version 1.5.0 all duplicity backends are supported. Hence the name changed from ftplicity to duply.

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

Install duply 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 duply using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install duply

Install duply 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 duply using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install duply

How To Uninstall duply on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove duply

duply Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/duply
/usr/bin/duply
/usr/share/licenses/duply
/usr/share/licenses/duply/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/duply.1.gz

References

duply website

Summary

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