dvbackup command not found

Introduction

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

dvbackup: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dvbackup: command not found

Solutions to dvbackup: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dvbackup is provided by dvbackup package.

dvbackup is:

Dvbackup hides the data it receives on standard input in a perfectly legal DV (digital video) stream. This allows you to use your DV camcorder and your DV cartridges as a potent mass storage system. Obviously, your system and your camcorder have to be connected via IEEE1394 (aka Firewire, iLink).

Current digital camcorders can save approximately 13 GB of data on those tiny DV cartridges at a speed of 3.6 MB/sec. That’s faster than most DAT streamers which only work at 1 MB/sec or less. dvbackup can not use all of the data, but 10 GB should be good enough for everyone.

To bring the data on tape, you have to use an additional utility, called dvconnect, which is included in libdv-bin.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dvbackup

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

You can also use apt command to install dvbackup.

sudo apt -y install dvbackup

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

sudo aptitude install dvbackup

Summary

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