How To Install flexbackup on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flexbackup
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is flexbackup
flexbackup is:
Flexbackup is a flexible backup tool that works well for small to medium sized tasks for which solutions like amanda are overkill.
It features:
- Easy configuration
- Uses afio, dump, GNU tar, cpio, star, pax, lha, or zip archivers
- Full and numbered levels of incremental backup (similar to “dump”)
- Compression and buffering options for all backup types
- Handles remote filesystems with ssh/rsh; no special services required
- Writes to tapes, on-disk archive files, or on-disk directory trees
- Keeps a table of contents so you know what archives are on each tape
- Extensive logging options
There are three methods to install flexbackup
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 flexbackup Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flexbackup
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flexbackup
Install flexbackup Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flexbackup
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flexbackup
Install flexbackup 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 flexbackup
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flexbackup
How To Uninstall flexbackup on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the flexbackup
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flexbackup
Uninstall flexbackup And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flexbackup
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flexbackup
Remove flexbackup Configurations and Data
To remove flexbackup
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flexbackup
Remove flexbackup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flexbackup
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flexbackup
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flexbackup
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.