How To Install snapraid on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snapraid on Ubuntu.
What is snapraid
snapraid is:
SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures.
SnapRAID is mainly targeted for a home media center, where you have a lot of big files that rarely change.
Beside the ability to recover from disk failures, the other features of SnapRAID are:
- You can use disk already filled with files, without the need to reformat them. You will access them like now.
- All your data is hashed to ensure data integrity and to avoid silent corruption.
- If the failed disks are too many to allow a recovery, you lose the data only on the failed disks. All the data in the other disks is safe.
- If you accidentally delete some files in a disk, you can recover them.
- The disks can have different sizes.
- You can add disks at any time.
- It doesn’t lock-in your data. You can stop using SnapRAID at any time without the need to reformat or move data.
- To access a file, only a single disk needs to spin, saving power and producing less noise.
The official site of SnapRAID is: http://www.snapraid.it/
There are three methods to install snapraid on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install snapraid Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install snapraid using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install snapraid
Install snapraid Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install snapraid using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install snapraid
Install snapraid Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install snapraid using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install snapraid
How To Uninstall snapraid on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the snapraid package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove snapraid
Uninstall snapraid And Its Dependencies
To uninstall snapraid and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove snapraid
Remove snapraid Configurations and Data
To remove snapraid configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge snapraid
Remove snapraid configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove snapraid configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge snapraid
Dependencies
snapraid have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install snapraid package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.