Information about the package, rear, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rear package is designed for, Relax-and-Recover is a Linux disaster recovery and system.
Package Name:
rear
Summary:
Relax-and-Recover is a Linux disaster recovery and system
Description:
Relax-and-Recover is the leading Open Source disaster recovery and system migration solution. It comprises of a modular frame-work and ready-to-go workflows for many common situations to produce a bootable image and restore from backup using this image. As a benefit, it allows to restore to different hardware and can therefore be used as a migration tool as well. Currently Relax-and-Recover supports various boot media (incl. ISO, PXE, OBDR tape, USB or eSATA storage), a variety of network protocols (incl. sftp, ftp, http, nfs, cifs) as well as a multitude of backup strategies (incl. IBM TSM, HP DataProtector, Symantec NetBackup, EMC NetWorker, Bacula, Bareos, rsync). Relax-and-Recover was designed to be easy to set up, requires no maintenance and is there to assist when disaster strikes. Its setup-and-forget nature removes any excuse for not having a disaster recovery solution implemented.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.17.2
Release:
4.el6
Size:
364 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the rear package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install rear
This command will install rear on the server.
yum remove rear
This command will un-install rear on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rear, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove rear
This command will un-install rear on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove rear when using the -y flag.
yum update rear
This command will update rear to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rear, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update rear
This command will update rear to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove rear when using the -y flag.
yum info rear
This command will show you core information about the rear package.
yum deplist rear
This command will show you the dependencies for rear. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update rear
This command will check if there is an update waiting on rear. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.