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Hello,

I have following utility install in software management:
draksnapshot - Snapshot utility​ 
This is a backup program that uses rsync to take backup snapshots of filesystems. It uses hard links to save space on disk.

But, I see that draksnapshot is a folder and not any app which can be run.

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[root@localhost draksnapshot]# find / -name draksnapshot
find: ‘/proc/1759/task/1759/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/1759/net’: Invalid argument
/usr/share/draksnapshot
[root@localhost draksnapshot]# pwd
/usr/share/draksnapshot
[root@localhost draksnapshot]# ls
pixmaps/
[root@localhost draksnapshot]#


Can someone please help?

I see that you only look for a file/folder that is exactly named draksnapshot, you won't find any file start-draksnapshot or draksnapshot-start or something similar.
Maybe next time simply ask what the command is to run draksnapshot or how you could find said files ?

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[doktor5000@Mageia7VM ~]$ urpmq -l draksnapshot
/etc/X11/xinit.d/draksnapshot-applet.xinit
/etc/cron.d/rsnapshot
/usr/bin/draksnapshot-config
/usr/libexec/draksnapshot-config
/usr/sbin/draksnapshot-applet
/usr/sbin/draksnapshot-restore
/usr/share/autostart/autostart-draksnapshot.desktop
/usr/share/draksnapshot
/usr/share/draksnapshot/pixmaps
/usr/share/draksnapshot/pixmaps/draksnapshot-big.png
/usr/share/draksnapshot/pixmaps/draksnapshot.png
/usr/share/gnome/autostart/gnome-autostart-draksnapshot.desktop
/usr/share/icons/draksnapshot.png
/usr/share/icons/large/draksnapshot.png
/usr/share/icons/mini/draksnapshot.png
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz@cyrillic/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/draksnapshot.mo
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/MDV
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/MDV/Snapshot
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/MDV/Snapshot/Common.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/MDV/Snapshot/Hal.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/MDV/Snapshot/Restore.pm
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.mageia.draksnapshot-config.policy
[doktor5000@Mageia7VM ~]$

You may want to look at http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/7/en/content/ ... hot-config

a quick search in bugzilla : https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?qui ... _id=116569 reports several bugs are open on this,

bug #:17390, 19195, 21260, 22425.

Hmm.. so any other os restore tool recommended ?

backintime, bacula, clonezilla, mindi/mondo, rear - all to some extent are "os restore tools".
Maybe you could add some context information what you are actually trying to do, and what your backup strategy currently looks like ?

If snapshots work, it would be great. I prefer snapshots, since its default available on mageia. Unfortunately it doesnt load for me.
Otherwise something like Timeshift (which is default available on linux mint).

I use rsnapshot for more than a decade and it works great. Only text config files and no GUI. At least I don't use it .