BorgBackup is a powerful, easy-to-use backup software that can be used to create and manage backups of files and directories. In this tutorial, we will be installing BorgBackup on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before we begin, you need to have:
Before we can begin installing BorgBackup, we need to install some dependencies that it requires. Connect to your Alpine Linux server and run the following command to install the dependencies:
apk add gcc python3-dev libacl-dev liblz4-dev libssl1.1 musl-dev openssl-dev readline-dev zlib-dev
Clone the BorgBackup repository from GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/borgbackup/borg.git
Change the directory to the BorgBackup directory:
cd borg
Build and install the software using the following command:
python3 setup.py build
python3 setup.py install
To verify that BorgBackup has been installed correctly, you can run the following command:
borg --version
This should display the version number of BorgBackup, which means it has been successfully installed.
In this tutorial, we have successfully installed BorgBackup on Alpine Linux Latest. With BorgBackup, you can create and manage backups of files and directories on your system. Happy backups!
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