Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install backupninja on CentOS 8.
What is backupninja
Backupninja allows you to coordinate system backup by dropping a few simple configuration files into /etc/backup.d/. Most programs you might use for making backups don’t have their own configuration file format. Backupninja provides a centralized way to configure and schedule many different backup utilities. It allows for secure, remote, incremental file system backup (via rdiff-backup), compressed incremental data, backup system and hardware info, encrypted remote backups (via duplicity), safe backup of MySQL/PostgreSQL databases, subversion or trac repositories, burn CD/DVDs or create ISOs, incremental rsync with hard-linking.
We can use yum or dnf to install backupninja on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install backupninja.
Install backupninja on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install backupninja using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install backupninja
Install backupninja on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install backupninja using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install backupninja
How To Uninstall backupninja on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the backupninja package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove backupninja
backupninja Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/backup.d
/etc/backupninja.conf
/etc/cron.d/backupninja
/etc/logrotate.d/backupninja
/usr/libexec/backupninja
/usr/libexec/backupninja/easydialog
/usr/libexec/backupninja/parseini
/usr/libexec/backupninja/tools
/usr/libexec/backupninja/vserver
/usr/sbin/backupninja
/usr/sbin/ninjahelper
/usr/share/backupninja
/usr/share/backupninja/borg
/usr/share/backupninja/borg.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/dup
/usr/share/backupninja/dup.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/example.borg
/usr/share/backupninja/example.dup
/usr/share/backupninja/example.maildir
/usr/share/backupninja/example.makecd
/usr/share/backupninja/example.mysql
/usr/share/backupninja/example.pgsql
/usr/share/backupninja/example.rdiff
/usr/share/backupninja/example.rsync
/usr/share/backupninja/example.sh
/usr/share/backupninja/example.svn
/usr/share/backupninja/example.sys
/usr/share/backupninja/example.trac
/usr/share/backupninja/maildir
/usr/share/backupninja/makecd
/usr/share/backupninja/makecd.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/mysql
/usr/share/backupninja/mysql.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/pgsql
/usr/share/backupninja/pgsql.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/rdiff
/usr/share/backupninja/rdiff.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/rsync
/usr/share/backupninja/sh
/usr/share/backupninja/svn
/usr/share/backupninja/sys
/usr/share/backupninja/sys.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/tar
/usr/share/backupninja/tar.helper
/usr/share/backupninja/trac
/usr/share/doc/backupninja
/usr/share/doc/backupninja/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/backupninja/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/backupninja/FAQ.md
/usr/share/doc/backupninja/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/backupninja/README.md
/usr/share/doc/backupninja/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/backupninja
/usr/share/licenses/backupninja/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/backupninja.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ninjahelper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/backup.d.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/backupninja.conf.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install backupninja on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
