How To Install zpaq on Fedora 34

zpaq is Incremental journaling back-up archiver

Introduction

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

What is zpaq

This is a journaling archiver optimized for user-level incremental backup of directory trees. It supports AES-256 encryption, 5 multi-threaded compression levels, and content-aware file fragment level deduplication. For backups it adds only files whose date has changed, and keeps both old and new versions. You can roll back the archive date to restore from old versions of the archive. The default compression level is faster than zip usually with better compression. zpaq uses a self-describing compressed format to allow for future improvements without breaking compatibility with older versions of the program.

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

Install zpaq 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 zpaq using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zpaq

Install zpaq 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 zpaq using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zpaq

How To Uninstall zpaq on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove zpaq

zpaq Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/zpaq
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/f9e5ee7c01c43c70e8e24daeaffce15dd9e4d4
/usr/share/doc/zpaq
/usr/share/doc/zpaq/readme.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/zpaq.1.gz

References

Summary

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