Information about the package, backupninja, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The backupninja package is designed for, Lightweight, extensible backup system.
Package Name:
backupninja
Summary:
Lightweight, extensible backup system
Description:
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.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.0.1
Release:
8.el6
Size:
93 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the backupninja package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install backupninja
This command will install backupninja on the server.
yum remove backupninja
This command will un-install backupninja on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove backupninja, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove backupninja
This command will un-install backupninja 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 backupninja when using the -y flag.
yum update backupninja
This command will update backupninja to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove backupninja, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update backupninja
This command will update backupninja 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 backupninja when using the -y flag.
yum info backupninja
This command will show you core information about the backupninja package.
yum deplist backupninja
This command will show you the dependencies for backupninja. 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 backupninja
This command will check if there is an update waiting on backupninja. 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.