How To Install zbackup on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zbackup on Fedora 34.
What is zbackup
zbackup is a globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync. Feed a large .tar into it, and it will store duplicate regions of it only once, then compress and optionally encrypt the result. Feed another .tar file, and it will also re-use any data found in any previous backups. This way only new changes are stored, and as long as the files are not very different, the amount of storage required is very low.
We can use yum or dnf to install zbackup on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zbackup.
Install zbackup 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 zbackup using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install zbackup
Install zbackup 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 zbackup using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install zbackup
How To Uninstall zbackup on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the zbackup package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove zbackup
zbackup Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/tartool
/usr/bin/zbackup
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/fb432498508ee32349fc318ec371df84823aa3
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/37403eab8bee34e59f71e7cb61c2cad82d41a0
/usr/share/doc/zbackup
/usr/share/doc/zbackup/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/licenses/zbackup
/usr/share/licenses/zbackup/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/zbackup/LICENSE-GPLV2
/usr/share/licenses/zbackup/LICENSE-GPLV3
/usr/share/man/man1/tartool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zbackup.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zbackup on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.