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Foreword WARNING
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WARNING: At the moment, consider khepri as alpha quality software, it is not WARNING: At the moment, consider khepri as alpha quality software, it is not
yet finished. Do not use it for real data yet. yet finished. Do not use it for real data!
Khepri Khepri
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Khepri is a program that does backups right. It tries to fulfill the Khepri is a program that does backups right. The design goals are:
following design goals:
* Easy: Every obstacle that is between you and a working * Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are
backup solution, especially regarding complex or otherwise hard to use tempted to skip it. Khepri should be easy to configure and use, so that in
software. Khepri should be easy to configure and use, so that in the the unlikely event of a data loss you can just restore it. Likewise,
unlikely event of a catastrophic data loss, you are safe. Likewise,
restoring data should not be complicated. restoring data should not be complicated.
* Fast: Backing up your data with khepri should only be * Fast: Backing up your data with khepri should only be limited by your
limited by your network or harddisk bandwidth. Ideally, you should backup network or harddisk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day.
your files every day. Nobody does backups if it is so slow it takes too Nobody does backups if it takes too much time. Restoring backups should only
much time. Furthermore, restoring backups should only transfer data that transfer data that is needed for the files that are to be restored, so that
is needed for the files that are to be restored, so that restoring is this process is also fast.
also fast.
* Verifiable: Much more important than backup is restore, so khepri makes it * Verifiable: Much more important than backup is restore, so khepri enables
easy to verify regularly that all data can be restored. you to easily verify that all data can be restored.
* Secure: Khepri uses cryptography to guarantee integrity and * Secure: Khepri uses cryptography to guarantee confidentiality and integrity
confidentiality of your data. The location where the backups is assumed of your data. The location the backup data is stored is assumed not to be a
to be a shared space where others (e.g. a system administrator) is able trusted environment (e.g. a shared space where others like system
to access your backups. Khepri is built to secure your data against such administrators are able to access your backups). Khepri is built to secure
attackers. your data against such attackers.
License License
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