How To Install duplicity on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install duplicity on CentOS 7.
What is duplicity
Duplicity incrementally backs up files and directory by encrypting tar-format volumes with GnuPG and uploading them to a remote (or local) file server. In theory many protocols for connecting to a file server could be supported; so far ssh/scp, local file access, rsync, ftp, HSI, WebDAV and Amazon S3 have been written. Because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficient and only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup. Currently duplicity supports deleted files, full unix permissions, directories, symbolic links, fifos, device files, but not hard links.
We can use yum or dnf to install duplicity on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install duplicity.
Install duplicity on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install duplicity using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install duplicity
Install duplicity 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 duplicity using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install duplicity
How To Uninstall duplicity on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the duplicity package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove duplicity
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install duplicity on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
