How To Install cinder-backup on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinder-backup on Debian 12.
What is cinder-backup
cinder-backup is:
Cinder is a block Storage-as-a-Service system for the OpenStack cloud computing suite. It re-implements the features of Nova-volume, which it directly replaces.
Cinder uses LVM partitions of your volume servers in order to provide iSCSI permanent block storage devices for your virtual machines running on Nova. It also has back-end drivers for many hardware and software storage solutions like Ceph, NFS, Net-APP, etc.
This package contains the Cinder backup service.
There are three methods to install cinder-backup on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cinder-backup Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cinder-backup using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cinder-backup
Install cinder-backup Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cinder-backup using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cinder-backup
Install cinder-backup 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cinder-backup using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cinder-backup
How To Uninstall cinder-backup on Debian 12
To uninstall only the cinder-backup package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cinder-backup
Uninstall cinder-backup And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cinder-backup and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cinder-backup
Remove cinder-backup Configurations and Data
To remove cinder-backup configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cinder-backup
Remove cinder-backup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cinder-backup configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cinder-backup
Dependencies
cinder-backup have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cinder-backup package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.