How To Install snapraid on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snapraid on CentOS 7.
What is snapraid
SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it’s able to recover from up to six disk failures. SnapRAID is mainly targeted for a home media center, with a lot of big files that rarely change.
We can use yum or dnf to install snapraid on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install snapraid.
Install snapraid on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install snapraid using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install snapraid
Install snapraid 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 snapraid using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install snapraid
How To Uninstall snapraid on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the snapraid package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove snapraid
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install snapraid on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.