rsnapshot command not found

Introduction

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

rsnapshot: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rsnapshot: command not found

Solutions to rsnapshot: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rsnapshot is provided by rsnapshot package.

rsnapshot is:

rsnapshot is an rsync-based filesystem snapshot utility. It can take incremental backups of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines. rsnapshot makes extensive use of hard links, so disk space is only used when absolutely necessary.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rsnapshot

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

You can also use apt command to install rsnapshot.

sudo apt -y install rsnapshot

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

sudo aptitude install rsnapshot

Summary

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