DREBS (Disaster Recovery for Elastic Block Store) is an open-source tool used for automating backups of Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install DREBS on POP! OS Latest.
Before installing DREBS on your system, ensure that your system meets the following requirements:
DREBS is written in Python, so you need to install Python on your system. You can install Python by running the following command:
sudo apt install python3
Pip is a package manager for Python. To install Pip, use the following command:
sudo apt install python3-pip
You need to install Git to download the DREBS source code from GitHub. You can install Git by running the following command:
sudo apt install git
To clone the DREBS repository, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/dojo4/drebs.git
To install DREBS, navigate to the directory where you cloned the DREBS repository and run the following command:
sudo pip3 install -e .
Before using DREBS, you need to configure it. You can configure DREBS by editing the config.yaml
file in the DREBS directory.
cd drebs
nano config.yaml
Update the values according to your needs.
To test whether DREBS is working properly, run the following command:
drebs backup --dry-run
This command should execute successfully and show you the backup plan without actually creating any backup.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured DREBS on POP! OS Latest. Now you can automate Amazon Elastic Block Store backups using DREBS.
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