dbackup command not found

Introduction

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

dbackup: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dbackup: command not found

Solutions to dbackup: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dbackup is provided by awit-dbackup package.

awit-dbackup is:

This is a backup software package which basically creates one archive per directory it backs up. This makes searching through the backup much easier as you can look for which files you’re after in the directory hierarchy. It will only backup directories which have changed, which makes it rsync friendly.

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

sudo apt-get -y install awit-dbackup

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

You can also use apt command to install awit-dbackup.

sudo apt -y install awit-dbackup

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

sudo aptitude install awit-dbackup

Summary

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