How To Install borgbackup on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install borgbackup on Kali Linux. borgbackup is deduplicating and compressing backup program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install borgbackup on Kali Linux.

What is borgbackup

borgbackup 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.

Please note that the server and the client should be on the same version of borgbackup. Using different versions of borgbackup on client and server might result in ‘incompatible API version’ error messages and a non-working backup.

While there is no direct operations mode for pull-type backups, you can configure the backup target in append-only mode, preventing the backup source from deleting or altering previous backups.

There are three methods to install borgbackup 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 borgbackup 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install borgbackup

Install borgbackup Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install borgbackup

Install borgbackup 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 update

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

sudo aptitude -y install borgbackup

How To Uninstall borgbackup on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove borgbackup

Uninstall borgbackup And Its Dependencies

To uninstall borgbackup and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove borgbackup

Remove borgbackup Configurations and Data

To remove borgbackup configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge borgbackup

Remove borgbackup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove borgbackup configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge borgbackup

Dependencies

borgbackup have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install borgbackup package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.