backup2l command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

backup2l: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: backup2l: command not found

Solutions to backup2l: command not found

How To Fix backup2l: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu backup2l is provided by backup2l package.

backup2l is:

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.

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.

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.

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.

An integrated split-and-collect function allows one to comfortably transfer all or selected archives to a set of CDs or other removable media.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install backup2l

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install backup2l.

sudo apt -y install backup2l

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install backup2l

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix backup2l command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.