How to Install Rdiff-backup on Fedora CoreOS Latest

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Rdiff-backup on Fedora CoreOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, you need to have the following:

Step 1: Install Required Packages

Rdiff-backup requires the following packages to be installed on your system:

sudo dnf install -y rdiff-backup python3-lockfile

This command installs both Rdiff-backup and Python lockfile package on your Fedora CoreOS Latest instance.

Step 2: Verify Rdiff-backup Installation

After the installation completes, you can verify if Rdiff-backup has been installed successfully. To do so, use the following command:

rdiff-backup --version

This will display the version of Rdiff-backup installed on your system.

Step 3: Using Rdiff-backup

Once you have Rdiff-backup installed, you can use it to take backups of your data. You can use the following command to create a backup of a directory named mydata:

rdiff-backup /path/to/mydata /path/to/backupdir

This will create a backup of the mydata directory in the /path/to/backupdir.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Rdiff-backup on Fedora CoreOS Latest. We have also provided a basic example of how to use Rdiff-backup to take backups of your data.

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