How To Install borgbackup on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install borgbackup on CentOS 7. borgbackup is A deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install borgbackup on CentOS 7.

What is borgbackup

BorgBackup (short Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.

We can use yum or dnf to install borgbackup on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install borgbackup.

Install borgbackup on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install borgbackup using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install borgbackup

Install borgbackup 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 borgbackup using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install borgbackup

How To Uninstall borgbackup on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the borgbackup package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove borgbackup

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install borgbackup on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.