Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install backup-manager on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is backup-manager
backup-manager is:
This is a backup program, designed to help you make daily archives of
your file system.
Written in bash and perl, it can make tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, and zip
archives and can be run in a parallel mode with different
configuration files. Other archives are possible: MySQL or SVN dumps,
incremental backups…
Archives are kept for a given number of days and the upload system
can use FTP, SSH or RSYNC to transfer the generated archives to a list of
remote hosts.
Automatically burning archives to removable media such as CD or DVD is also
possible.
The configuration file is very simple and basic and gettext is used for
internationalization.
There are three methods to install backup-manager on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install backup-manager Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install backup-manager using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install backup-manager
Install backup-manager Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install backup-manager using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install backup-manager
Install backup-manager 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 backup-manager using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install backup-manager
How To Uninstall backup-manager on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the backup-manager package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove backup-manager
Uninstall backup-manager And Its Dependencies
To uninstall backup-manager and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove backup-manager
Remove backup-manager Configurations and Data
To remove backup-manager configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge backup-manager
Remove backup-manager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove backup-manager configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge backup-manager
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install backup-manager package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
