How To Install xfsdump on Fedora 34

xfsdump is Administrative utilities for the XFS filesystem

Introduction

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

What is `xfsdump`

The xfsdump package contains xfsdump, xfsrestore and a number of other utilities for administering XFS filesystems. xfsdump examines files in a filesystem, determines which need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium. It uses XFS-specific directives for optimizing the dump of an XFS filesystem, and also knows how to backup XFS extended attributes. Backups created with xfsdump are “endian safe” and can thus be transfered between Linux machines of different architectures and also between IRIX machines. xfsrestore performs the inverse function of xfsdump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may be restored from full or partial backups.

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

Install xfsdump 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 xfsdump using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xfsdump

Install xfsdump 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 xfsdump using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xfsdump

How To Uninstall xfsdump on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove xfsdump

xfsdump Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/0d292f3b26ad2642143f0b5a46ef56bf5c6308
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/553eecb746f0fd45393266909401c118211fff
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/f3a0515618bf20ca9e6518e201bbc21282e928
/usr/sbin/xfsdump
/usr/sbin/xfsinvutil
/usr/sbin/xfsrestore
/usr/share/doc/xfsdump
/usr/share/doc/xfsdump/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/xfsdump/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xfsdump/README
/usr/share/doc/xfsdump/README.xfsdump
/usr/share/doc/xfsdump/xfsdump_ts.txt
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/xfsdump.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/xfsdump.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/xfsdump.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfsinvutil.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xfsrestore.8.gz
/var/lib/xfsdump/inventory

References

xfsdump website

Summary

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