How To Install backup2l on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install backup2l on Debian 12.
What is backup2l
backup2l is:
backup2l [backup-too-l] is a tool for autonomously generating, maintaining and restoring backups on a mountable file system (e. g. hard disk). In a default installation, backups are created regularly by a cron script.
The main design goals are low maintenance effort, efficiency, transparency and robustness. All control files are stored together with the archives on the backup device, and their contents are mostly self-explaining. Hence, a user can - if necessary - browse the files and extract archives manually.
backup2l features differential backups at multiple hierarchical levels. This allows one to generate small incremental backups at short intervals while at the same time, the total number of archives only increases logarithmically with the number of backups since the last full backup.
An open driver architecture allows one to use virtually any archiving program as a backend. Built-in drivers support .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and others. Further user-defined drivers can be added.
An integrated split-and-collect function allows one to comfortably transfer all or selected archives to a set of CDs or other removable media.
There are three methods to install backup2l on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install backup2l Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install backup2l using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install backup2l
Install backup2l Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install backup2l using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install backup2l
Install backup2l Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install backup2l using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install backup2l
How To Uninstall backup2l on Debian 12
To uninstall only the backup2l package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove backup2l
Uninstall backup2l And Its Dependencies
To uninstall backup2l and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove backup2l
Remove backup2l Configurations and Data
To remove backup2l configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge backup2l
Remove backup2l configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove backup2l configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge backup2l
Dependencies
backup2l have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install backup2l package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.