How To Install backupninja on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install backupninja
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is backupninja
Backupninja allows you to coordinate system backup by dropping a few simple configuration files into /etc/backup.d/. Most programs you might use for making backups don’t have their own configuration file format. Backupninja provides a centralized way to configure and schedule many different backup utilities. It allows for secure, remote, incremental file system backup (via rdiff-backup), compressed incremental data, backup system and hardware info, encrypted remote backups (via duplicity), safe backup of MySQL/PostgreSQL databases, subversion or trac repositories, burn CD/DVDs or create ISOs, incremental rsync with hard-linking.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install backupninja
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install backupninja.
Install backupninja on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install backupninja
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install backupninja
Install backupninja on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install backupninja
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install backupninja
How To Uninstall backupninja on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the backupninja
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove backupninja
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install backupninja
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.