How To Install borgbackup-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install borgbackup-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is borgbackup-doc
borgbackup-doc is:
Borg is a deduplicating and compressing backup program. Optionally, it also supports authenticated encryption. It was forked from the attic backup program.
The main goal of Borg is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication technique used makes Borg suitable for daily backups since only the changes are stored. The authenticated encryption makes it suitable for backups to not fully trusted targets.
It can push backups to remote repositories accessed via ssh. A client pushing a backup invokes “borg serve” on the repository host. It is possible to restrict the ssh key to “borg serve” using the authorized_keys command= clause.
This is the documentation package
Package: borgbackup-doc Architecture: all Version: 1.1.11-5 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/doc Source: borgbackup Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Borg Collective [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 7303 Depends: libjs-sphinxdoc (>= 1.0), libjs-bootstrap Filename: pool/universe/b/borgbackup/borgbackup-doc_1.1.11-5_all.deb Size: 2765288 MD5sum: 8bdf96de97e58f9afaf618643bfa411d SHA1: 6435a95bd3437f8a33360a02171e17fe9199f6aa SHA256: 299529fde8cadbe149bd7ed4646f1570e5e4d6ae7e080fb75e504417f4074ac6 Homepage: https://borgbackup.github.io/borgbackup/ Description-en: deduplicating and compressing backup program (documentation) Borg is a deduplicating and compressing backup program. Optionally, it also supports authenticated encryption. It was forked from the attic backup program.
The main goal of Borg is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication technique used makes Borg suitable for daily backups since only the changes are stored. The authenticated encryption makes it suitable for backups to not fully trusted targets.
It can push backups to remote repositories accessed via ssh. A client pushing a backup invokes “borg serve” on the repository host. It is possible to restrict the ssh key to “borg serve” using the authorized_keys command= clause.
This is the documentation package
There are three methods to install borgbackup-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install borgbackup-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install borgbackup-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install borgbackup-doc
Install borgbackup-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install borgbackup-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install borgbackup-doc
Install borgbackup-doc 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install borgbackup-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install borgbackup-doc
How To Uninstall borgbackup-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the borgbackup-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove borgbackup-doc
Uninstall borgbackup-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall borgbackup-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove borgbackup-doc
Remove borgbackup-doc Configurations and Data
To remove borgbackup-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge borgbackup-doc
Remove borgbackup-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove borgbackup-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge borgbackup-doc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install borgbackup-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
