How to Install and Uninstall backup2l Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "backup2l" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install backup2l on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                backup2l
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "backup2l" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall backup2l on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                backup2l
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the backup2l package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: backup2l
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 97
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Joachim Wiedorn
Architecture: all
Version: 1.5-8
Recommends: bzip2
Suggests: xz-utils
Filename: pool/universe/b/backup2l/backup2l_1.5-8_all.deb
Size: 31314
MD5sum: 53a60f56aecb121d5361af535588bf77
SHA1: 6738ddea1585f60841e5c94f574995a167a19c1c
SHA256: 8c3b84781dfb364a737237645bfc017e54cd003b84d1e9051355c170c912711f
Description-en: low-maintenance backup/restore tool
backup2l [backup-too-l] is a tool for autonomously generating, maintaining
and restoring backups on a mountable file system (e. g. hard disk). In a
default installation, backups are created regularly by a cron script.
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The main design goals are low maintenance effort, efficiency, transparency
and robustness. All control files are stored together with the archives on
the backup device, and their contents are mostly self-explaining. Hence, a
user can - if necessary - browse the files and extract archives manually.
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backup2l features differential backups at multiple hierarchical levels.
This allows one to generate small incremental backups at short intervals
while at the same time, the total number of archives only increases
logarithmically with the number of backups since the last full backup.
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An open driver architecture allows one to use virtually any archiving
program as a backend. Built-in drivers support .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and others.
Further user-defined drivers can be added.
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An integrated split-and-collect function allows one to comfortably transfer
all or selected archives to a set of CDs or other removable media.
Description-md5: 5012a92cfa52604bcce85ef253e5ab12
Homepage: http://backup2l.sourceforge.net
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu