How To Install zbackup on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zbackup on CentOS 7.
What is zbackup
zbackup is a globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync. Feed a large .tar into it, and it will store duplicate regions of it only once, then compress and optionally encrypt the result. Feed another .tar file, and it will also re-use any data found in any previous backups. This way only new changes are stored, and as long as the files are not very different, the amount of storage required is very low.
We can use yum or dnf to install zbackup on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zbackup.
Install zbackup on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install zbackup using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install zbackup
Install zbackup 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 zbackup using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install zbackup
How To Uninstall zbackup on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the zbackup package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove zbackup
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zbackup on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
