Information about the package, snapraid, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The snapraid package is designed for, Disk array backup for many large rarely-changed files.
Package Name:
snapraid
Summary:
Disk array backup for many large rarely-changed files
Description:
SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it's able to recover from up to six disk failures. SnapRAID is mainly targeted for a home media center, with a lot of big files that rarely change.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
6.1
Release:
3.el6
Size:
232 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the snapraid package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install snapraid
This command will install snapraid on the server.
yum remove snapraid
This command will un-install snapraid on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove snapraid, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove snapraid
This command will un-install snapraid 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 snapraid when using the -y flag.
yum update snapraid
This command will update snapraid to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove snapraid, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update snapraid
This command will update snapraid 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 snapraid when using the -y flag.
yum info snapraid
This command will show you core information about the snapraid package.
yum deplist snapraid
This command will show you the dependencies for snapraid. 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 snapraid
This command will check if there is an update waiting on snapraid. 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.