Information about the package, genbackupdata, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The genbackupdata package is designed for, A program to generate test data for testing backup software.
Package Name:
genbackupdata
Summary:
A program to generate test data for testing backup software
Description:
genbackupdata creates or modifies directory trees in ways that simulate real filesystems sufficiently well for performance testing of backup software. For example, it can create files that are a mix of small text files and big binary files, with the binary files containing random binary junk which compresses badly. This can then be backed up, and later the directory tree can be changed by creating new files, modifying files, or deleting or renaming files. The backup can then be run again. The output is deterministic, such that for a given set of parameters the same output always happens. Thus it is more efficient to distribute genbackupdata and a set of parameters between people who wish to benchmark backup software than distributing very large test sets.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.7
Release:
1.el6
Size:
17 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the genbackupdata package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install genbackupdata
This command will install genbackupdata on the server.
yum remove genbackupdata
This command will un-install genbackupdata on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove genbackupdata, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove genbackupdata
This command will un-install genbackupdata 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 genbackupdata when using the -y flag.
yum update genbackupdata
This command will update genbackupdata to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove genbackupdata, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update genbackupdata
This command will update genbackupdata 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 genbackupdata when using the -y flag.
yum info genbackupdata
This command will show you core information about the genbackupdata package.
yum deplist genbackupdata
This command will show you the dependencies for genbackupdata. 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 genbackupdata
This command will check if there is an update waiting on genbackupdata. 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.