backup-manager command not found

Introduction

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

backup-manager: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: backup-manager: command not found

Solutions to backup-manager: command not found

How To Fix backup-manager: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu backup-manager is provided by backup-manager package.

backup-manager is:

This is a backup program, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system.

Written in bash and perl, it can make tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, and zip archives and can be run in a parallel mode with different configuration files. Other archives are possible: MySQL or SVN dumps, incremental backups…

Archives are kept for a given number of days and the upload system can use FTP, SSH or RSYNC to transfer the generated archives to a list of remote hosts.

Automatically burning archives to removable media such as CD or DVD is also possible.

The configuration file is very simple and basic and gettext is used for internationalization.

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

sudo apt-get -y install backup-manager

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

You can also use apt command to install backup-manager.

sudo apt -y install backup-manager

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

sudo aptitude install backup-manager

Summary

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