How To Install rsync-bpc on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsync-bpc
on CentOS 7.
What is rsync-bpc
Rsync-bpc is a customized version of rsync that is used as part of BackupPC, an open source backup system. The main change to rsync is adding a shim layer (in the subdirectory backuppc, and in bpc_sysCalls.c) that emulates the system calls for accessing the file system so that rsync can directly read/write files in BackupPC’s format. Rsync-bpc is fully line-compatible with vanilla rsync, so it can talk to rsync servers and clients. Rsync-bpc serves no purpose outside of BackupPC.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install rsync-bpc
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rsync-bpc.
Install rsync-bpc on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rsync-bpc
using yum
by running the following command:
Install rsync-bpc 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.
After updating yum database, We can install rsync-bpc
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall rsync-bpc on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rsync-bpc
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsync-bpc
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.