How To Install backup2l on Debian 12

Learn how to install backup2l on Debian 12 with this tutorial. backup2l is low-maintenance backup/restore tool

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.