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seivot


Information about the package, seivot, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The seivot package is designed for, Benchmarking tool for backup programs.


Package Name:

seivot

Summary:

Benchmarking tool for backup programs

Description:

Seivot is a program for benchmarking backup software. It was written for developing Obnam, but it should be possible to adapt it to also support other on-disk backup solutions, such as rsync or rdiff-backup.

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

1.18

Release:

1.el6

Size:

31 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv3+



Handy Yum Commands for seivot


Control the seivot package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install seivot

This command will install seivot on the server.

yum remove seivot

This command will un-install seivot on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove seivot, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove seivot

This command will un-install seivot 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 seivot when using the -y flag.

yum update seivot

This command will update seivot to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove seivot, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update seivot

This command will update seivot 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 seivot when using the -y flag.

yum info seivot

This command will show you core information about the seivot package.

yum deplist seivot

This command will show you the dependencies for seivot. 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 seivot

This command will check if there is an update waiting on seivot. 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.