Information about the package, backup-manager, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The backup-manager package is designed for, A command line backup tool for GNU/Linux.
Package Name:
backup-manager
Summary:
A command line backup tool for GNU/Linux
Description:
Backup Manager is a command line backup tool for GNU/Linux, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system. Written in bash and Perl, it can make archives in lots of open formats (tar, gzip, bzip2, lzma, dar, zip) and provides lots of interesting features (such as network exports or CD/DVD automated-burning). The program is designed to be as easy to use as possible and is popular with desktop users and sysadmins. The whole backup process is defined in one full-documented configuration file which needs no more than 5 minutes to tune for your needs.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.7.10
Release:
1.el6
Size:
102 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the backup-manager package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install backup-manager
This command will install backup-manager on the server.
yum remove backup-manager
This command will un-install backup-manager on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove backup-manager, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove backup-manager
This command will un-install backup-manager 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 backup-manager when using the -y flag.
yum update backup-manager
This command will update backup-manager to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove backup-manager, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update backup-manager
This command will update backup-manager 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 backup-manager when using the -y flag.
yum info backup-manager
This command will show you core information about the backup-manager package.
yum deplist backup-manager
This command will show you the dependencies for backup-manager. 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 backup-manager
This command will check if there is an update waiting on backup-manager. 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.