How To Install restic on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is restic

restic is:

restic is a program that does backups right and was designed with the following principles in mind: - Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you might be tempted to skip it. Restic should be easy to configure and use, so that, in the event of a data loss, you can just restore it. Likewise, restoring data should not be complicated. - Fast: Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your network or hard disk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day. Nobody does backups if it takes too much time. Restoring backups should only transfer data that is needed for the files that are to be restored, so that this process is also fast. - Verifiable: Much more important than backup is restore, so restic enables you to easily verify that all data can be restored. - Secure: Restic uses cryptography to guarantee confidentiality and integrity of your data. The location the backup data is stored is assumed not to be a trusted environment (e.g. a shared space where others like system administrators are able to access your backups). Restic is built to secure your data against such attackers. - Efficient: With the growth of data, additional snapshots should only take the storage of the actual increment. Even more, duplicate data should be de-duplicated before it is actually written to the storage back end to save precious backup space.

There are three methods to install restic 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 restic Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install restic using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install restic

Install restic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install restic

Install restic 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 restic using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install restic

How To Uninstall restic on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove restic

Uninstall restic And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove restic

Remove restic Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge restic

Remove restic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge restic

Dependencies

restic have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• restic website

Summary

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