How To Install zbackup on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install zbackup in Fedora 36. zbackup is A versatile deduplicating backup tool

Introduction

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

What is zbackup

zbackup is a globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync. Feed a large .tar into it, and it will store duplicate regions of it only once, then compress and optionally encrypt the result. Feed another .tar file, and it will also re-use any data found in any previous backups. This way only new changes are stored, and as long as the files are not very different, the amount of storage required is very low.

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

Install zbackup 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 zbackup using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zbackup

Install zbackup 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 zbackup using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zbackup

How To Uninstall zbackup on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove zbackup

zbackup Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/tartool
/usr/bin/zbackup
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/b55351f74af4711edda9ef9f825bb0673ada50
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/d2cffcf0bcdf12e5606d0d07572b7f4a25cc52
/usr/share/doc/zbackup
/usr/share/doc/zbackup/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/licenses/zbackup
/usr/share/licenses/zbackup/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/zbackup/LICENSE-GPLV2
/usr/share/licenses/zbackup/LICENSE-GPLV3
/usr/share/man/man1/tartool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zbackup.1.gz

References

Summary

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