How To Install backupninja on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install backupninja on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install backupninja.
Install backupninja on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install backupninja using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install backupninja
Install backupninja on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install backupninja using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install backupninja
How To Uninstall backupninja on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the backupninja package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove backupninja
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install backupninja on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
