Information about the package, obnam, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The obnam package is designed for, An easy, secure backup program.
Package Name:
obnam
Summary:
An easy, secure backup program
URL:
Description:
Obnam is an easy, secure backup program. Backups can be stored on local hard disks, or online via the SSH SFTP protocol. The backup server, if used, does not require any special software, on top of SSH. Some features that may interest you: * Snapshot backups. Every generation looks like a complete snapshot, so you don't need to care about full versus incremental backups, or rotate real or virtual tapes. * Data de-duplication, across files, and backup generations. If the backup repository already contains a particular chunk of data, it will be re-used, even if it was in another file in an older backup generation. This way, you don't need to worry about moving around large files, or modifying them. * Encrypted backups, using GnuPG. Obnam can do push or pull backups, depending on what you need. You can run Obnam on the client, and push backups to the server, or on the server, and pull from the client over SFTP. However, access to live data over SFTP is currently somewhat limited and fragile, so it is not recommended.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.8
Release:
1.el6
Size:
282 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the obnam package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install obnam
This command will install obnam on the server.
yum remove obnam
This command will un-install obnam on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove obnam, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove obnam
This command will un-install obnam 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 obnam when using the -y flag.
yum update obnam
This command will update obnam to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove obnam, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update obnam
This command will update obnam 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 obnam when using the -y flag.
yum info obnam
This command will show you core information about the obnam package.
yum deplist obnam
This command will show you the dependencies for obnam. 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 obnam
This command will check if there is an update waiting on obnam. 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.