How To Install backup-light on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install backup-light
on Fedora 36.
What is backup-light
Backup-light is a small, lightweight utility written for the bash shell that backups the active users $HOME directory. Backup-light is able to preform both full and incremental backups with the options to preform a backup with out updating the time stamp, or to backup to a different directory or device at will. Backup-light also creates MD5sums of the backup archives for added security.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install backup-light
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install backup-light.
Install backup-light on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install backup-light
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install backup-light
Install backup-light on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install backup-light
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install backup-light
How To Uninstall backup-light on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the backup-light
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove backup-light
backup-light Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/backup-light
/usr/share/doc/backup-light
/usr/share/doc/backup-light/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/backup-light/README
/usr/share/doc/backup-light/authors
/usr/share/man/man1/backup-light.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install backup-light
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).