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Quick installation of backup-manager:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: backup-manager
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install backup-manager
Package Details | |
| Package: | backup-manager |
| Version: | 0.7.12-4 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | https://github.com/sukria/Backup-Manager |
| Description: | command-line backup tool This is a backup program, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system. . Written in bash and perl, it can make tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, and zip archives and can be run in a parallel mode with different configuration files. Other archives are possible: MySQL or SVN dumps, incremental backups... . Archives are kept for a given number of days and the upload system can use FTP, SSH or RSYNC to transfer the generated archives to a list of remote hosts. . Automatically burning archives to removable media such as CD or DVD is also possible. . The configuration file is very simple and basic and gettext is used for internationalization. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 16.10 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/admin |
How to install backup-manager on Ubuntu 16.10?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 16.10 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If backup-manager is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L backup-manager' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L backup-manager dpkg-query: package 'backup-manager' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing backup-manager:
After system update use the following command to install backup-manager:
sudo apt-get install backup-manager
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 16.10 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove backup-manager from Ubuntu 16.10?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the backup-manager from Ubuntu 16.10. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the backup-manager following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove backup-manager
Following command is used to remove the backup-manager package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove backup-manager
This will remove backup-manager and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing backup-manager with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge backup-manager
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove backup-manager
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with backup-manager package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
