How To Install bacula-director on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bacula-director on Kali Linux.
What is bacula-director
bacula-director is:
Bacula is a set of programs to manage backup, recovery and verification of data across a network of computers of different kinds.
The Bacula Director service supervises all the backup, restore, verify and archive operations. It can run as a daemon or as a foreground service which administrators can use to schedule backups and recover files.
This package provides the Bacula Director daemon.
There are three methods to install bacula-director 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 bacula-director Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install bacula-director using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bacula-directorInstall bacula-director Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install bacula-director using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bacula-directorInstall bacula-director 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 bacula-director using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bacula-directorHow To Uninstall bacula-director on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the bacula-director package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bacula-directorUninstall bacula-director And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bacula-director and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bacula-directorRemove bacula-director Configurations and Data
To remove bacula-director configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bacula-directorRemove bacula-director configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bacula-director configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bacula-directorDependencies
bacula-director have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bacula-director package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.