How To Install bacula-director on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bacula-director on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is bacula-director
bacula-director is:
Bacula is a set of programs to manage backup, recovery, and verification of data across a network of computers of different kinds.
The Bacula Director service supervises all the backup, restore, verify, and archive operations. It can run as a daemon or as a foreground service which administrators can use to schedule backups and recover files.
This package provides the Bacula Director daemon.
There are three methods to install bacula-director on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bacula-director Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bacula-director using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bacula-director
Install bacula-director Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bacula-director using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bacula-director
Install bacula-director 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 bacula-director using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bacula-director
How To Uninstall bacula-director on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the bacula-director package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bacula-director
Uninstall bacula-director And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bacula-director and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bacula-director
Remove bacula-director Configurations and Data
To remove bacula-director configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bacula-director
Remove bacula-director configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bacula-director configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bacula-director
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bacula-director package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
