storeBackupSearch command not found

Introduction

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

storeBackupSearch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: storeBackupSearch: command not found

Solutions to storeBackupSearch: command not found

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

In Ubuntu storeBackupSearch is provided by storebackup package.

storebackup is:

Copies directory hierarchies recursively into another location, by date (e.g. /home/ => /var/bkup/2002.12.13_04.27.56/). Permissions are preserved, so users with access to the backup directory can recover their files themselves.

File comparisons are done with MD5 checksums, so no changes go unnoticed.

Hard-links unchanged backuped files to old versions and identical files within the backuped tree.

Compresses large files (that don’t match exclusion patterns).

Manages backups and removes old ones.

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

sudo apt-get -y install storebackup

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

You can also use apt command to install storebackup.

sudo apt -y install storebackup

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

sudo aptitude install storebackup

Summary

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