How To Install backup-light on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install backup-light in Fedora 36. backup-light is A small backup bash utility

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

backup-light website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install backup-light on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).