How To Install backup-manager on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install backup-manager on Kali Linux.
What is backup-manager
backup-manager is:
This is a backup program, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system.
Written in bash and perl, it can make tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, and zip archives and can be run in a parallel mode with different configuration files. Other archives are possible: MySQL or SVN dumps, incremental backups…
Archives are kept for a given number of days and the upload system can use FTP, SSH or RSYNC to transfer the generated archives to a list of remote hosts.
Automatically burning archives to removable media such as CD or DVD is also possible.
The configuration file is very simple and basic and gettext is used for internationalization.
There are three methods to install backup-manager on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install backup-manager Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install backup-manager using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install backup-managerInstall backup-manager Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install backup-manager using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install backup-managerInstall backup-manager Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install backup-manager using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install backup-managerHow To Uninstall backup-manager on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the backup-manager package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove backup-managerUninstall backup-manager And Its Dependencies
To uninstall backup-manager and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove backup-managerRemove backup-manager Configurations and Data
To remove backup-manager configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge backup-managerRemove backup-manager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove backup-manager configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge backup-managerDependencies
backup-manager have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install backup-manager package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
