DREBS is an open-source tool for creating and managing backups of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the step-by-step process of installing DREBS on MXLinux Latest.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following:
Open the terminal application and run the following command to clone the DREBS repository:
git clone https://github.com/dojo4/drebs.git
This will create a new directory drebs
in the current directory.
DREBS requires some packages to be installed before it can run. Run the following command to install the required packages:
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pip python3-argcomplete
Now, go to the drebs
directory that you cloned in step 1 by running:
cd drebs/
Then, run the following command to install DREBS:
python3 setup.py install
This will install DREBS on your MXLinux system.
Once the installation is complete, verify that DREBS is installed correctly by running the following command:
drebs --help
This will display the help menu for DREBS, which indicates that it has been installed successfully.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install DREBS on MXLinux Latest. Now, you can use DREBS to create and manage backups of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes.
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