How To Install fsarchiver on Fedora 34

fsarchiver is Safe and flexible file-system backup/deployment tool

Introduction

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

What is fsarchiver

FSArchiver is a system tool that allows you to save the contents of a file-system to a compressed archive file. The file-system can be restored on a partition which has a different size and it can be restored on a different file-system. Unlike tar/dar, FSArchiver also creates the file-system when it extracts the data to partitions. Everything is checksummed in the archive in order to protect the data. If the archive is corrupt, you just lose the current file, not the whole archive.

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

Install fsarchiver 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 fsarchiver using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fsarchiver

Install fsarchiver 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 fsarchiver using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fsarchiver

How To Uninstall fsarchiver on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fsarchiver

fsarchiver Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/68394071cc163d97e8488f87dae4a1a5624d31
/usr/sbin/fsarchiver
/usr/share/doc/fsarchiver
/usr/share/doc/fsarchiver/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fsarchiver/README
/usr/share/doc/fsarchiver/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/fsarchiver
/usr/share/licenses/fsarchiver/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/fsarchiver.8.gz

References

Summary

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