How To Install restic on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install restic in Fedora 36. restic is Fast, secure, efficient backup program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install restic on Fedora 36.

What is `restic`

A backup program that is easy, fast, verifiable, secure, efficient and free. Backup destinations can be *Local *SFTP *REST Server *Amazon S3 *Minio Server *OpenStack Swift *Backblaze B2 *Microsoft Azure Blob Storage *Google Cloud Storage *Other Services via rclone

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

Install restic 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 restic using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install restic

Install restic 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 restic using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install restic

How To Uninstall restic on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove restic

restic Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/restic
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/fed3de9a3698423792a01e35c9edd4af946b29
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/restic
/usr/share/doc/restic
/usr/share/doc/restic/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/restic/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/restic/GOVERNANCE.md
/usr/share/doc/restic/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/restic
/usr/share/licenses/restic/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-backup.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-cache.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-cat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-check.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-copy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-diff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-dump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-find.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-forget.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-generate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-init.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-key.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-ls.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-migrate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-mount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-prune.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-rebuild-index.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-recover.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-restore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-self-update.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-snapshots.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-stats.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-tag.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-unlock.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic-version.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/restic.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_restic

References

restic website

Summary

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