Obnam is a backup program. Its goal is to make backups to a remote server, such that the backups are encrypted on the local end (so you don't have to trust the server admin to not snoop). The server does not need a special server program, any sftp server will work. Backups are done using the rsync algorithm.

The current stable release version is 0.8.3, released 2007-10-23.

• obnam-0.8.3.tar.gz
• README
• NEWS
• obnam.changelog

Those using Debian or systems based on Debian should be able to use the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://braawi.org/obnam/debian sid main

For developers: the public Bazaar repository is at http://bzr.braawi.org/obnam/, with one branch currently available: http://bzr.braawi.org/obnam/trunk/. To check it out, install bzr and give the following command:

bzr branch http://bzr.braawi.org/obnam/trunk obnam

See the issue tracker for known problems. There is an IRC channel dedicated to Obnam, network irc.oftc.net, channel #obnam.

Obnam is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or (at your option) any later version (see COPYING).

Development releases

There is now a development release of Obnam, release 0.9.2, released 2008-04-29, for those who want to live on the edge and help with testing for the next stable release:

• obnam-0.9.2.tar.gz
• README
• NEWS
• obnam-manpage
• obnam.changelog

There is an additional apt repository for Debian, as well:

deb http://braawi.org/obnam/experimental/debian experimental main

It is currently not yet updated for version 0.9.2.