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+[[!meta title="Obnam backup program"]]
+
+Obnam is an **easy, secure backup program.**
+Backups can be stored on local hard disks, 
+or online via the 
+[SSH SFTP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol) protocol.
+The backup server, if used, does not require any special software,
+on top of SSH.
+
+Some **features** that may interest you:
+
+* **Snapshot** backups. Every generation looks like a complete snapshot,
+  so you don't need to care about full versus incremental backups, or
+  rotate real or virtual tapes.
+* Data **de-duplication**, across files, and backup generations. If the
+  backup repository already contains a particular chunk of data, it will
+  be re-used, even if it was in another file in an older backup
+  generation. This way, you don't need to worry about moving around large
+  files, or modifying them. (However, the current implementation
+  has some limitations: see [[faq/dedup]]).
+* **Encrypted** backups, using GnuPG.
+
+See the [[tutorial]], and below for links to the manual, which has
+examples of how to use Obnam.
+
+Obnam can do **push** or **pull** backups, depending on what you
+need. You can run Obnam on the client, and push backups to the server,
+or on the server, and pull from the client over SFTP. However, access
+to live data over SFTP is currently somewhat limited and fragile, so it
+is not recommended.
+
+* [[1.0 release announcement|1.0]]
+* [[Status and support|status]]
+* [[Download]]
+* [[Contact]]
+* [[Bugs]]
+* [[Donate]]
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+* The full manual (currently a work in progress): available as
+  [a web page](http://code.liw.fi/obnam/manual/manual.html) and
+  [PDF](http://code.liw.fi/obnam/manual/manual.pdf).
+    - The Obnam test suite is also meant to be useful for the more
+      technical users of Obnam to read:
+      [web page](http://code.liw.fi/obnam/yarns.html),
+      [PDF](http://code.liw.fi/obnam/yarns.pdf).
+* [[README]] (updated at release time)
+* [[NEWS]] (updated at release time)
+* [[obnam manual page|obnam.1.txt]]
+* [[Roadmap for 1.0|roadmap-for-1.0]] (finished)
+* [[Roadmap post 1.2|roadmap-post-1.2]] (current)
+* [[FAQ]]
+* [[Development]] stuff
+
+Links
+-----
+
+* [Cache Directory Tagging Standard](http://www.bford.info/cachedir/)
+* [Backup bouncer](http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2007/04/27/introducing-backup-bouncer/)