How To Install backup-manager on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install backup-manager in Fedora 36. backup-manager is A command line backup tool for GNU/Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install backup-manager on Fedora 36.

What is backup-manager

Backup Manager is a command line backup tool for GNU/Linux, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system. Written in bash and Perl, it can make archives in lots of open formats (tar, gzip, bzip2, lzma, dar, zip) and provides lots of interesting features (such as network exports or CD/DVD automated-burning). The program is designed to be as easy to use as possible and is popular with desktop users and sysadmins. The whole backup process is defined in one full-documented configuration file which needs no more than 5 minutes to tune for your needs.

We can use yum or dnf to install backup-manager on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install backup-manager.

Install backup-manager 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-manager using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install backup-manager

Install backup-manager 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-manager using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install backup-manager

How To Uninstall backup-manager on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the backup-manager package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove backup-manager

backup-manager Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/backup-manager.conf
/etc/cron.daily/backup-manager.cron
/usr/bin/backup-manager-purge
/usr/bin/backup-manager-upload
/usr/sbin/backup-manager
/usr/share/backup-manager
/usr/share/backup-manager/actions.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/backup-manager.conf.tpl
/usr/share/backup-manager/backup-methods.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/burning-methods.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/contrib
/usr/share/backup-manager/contrib/sanitize.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/contrib/upgrade-conffile.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/dbus.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/dialog.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/externals.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/files.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/gettext-dummy.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/gettext-real.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/gettext.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/logger.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/md5sum.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/sanitize.sh
/usr/share/backup-manager/upload-methods.sh
/usr/share/doc/backup-manager
/usr/share/doc/backup-manager/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/backup-manager/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/backup-manager/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/backup-manager/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/backup-manager/README
/usr/share/doc/backup-manager/THANKS
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/backup-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/backup-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/backup-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/backup-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/backup-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/backup-manager.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/backup-manager.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/backup-manager-purge.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/backup-manager-upload.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/backup-manager.8.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/BackupManager
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/BackupManager/Config.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/BackupManager/Dialog.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/BackupManager/Logger.pm
/var/backup-manager

References

Summary

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