Provides some some general history about Cedar Backup, what needs it is intended to meet, how to get support, and how to migrate from version 2 to version 3.

Discusses the basic concepts of a Cedar Backup infrastructure, and specifies terms used throughout the rest of the manual.

Explains how to install the Cedar Backup package either from the Python source distribution or from the Debian package.

Discusses the various Cedar Backup command-line tools, including the primary cback command.

Provides detailed information about how to configure Cedar Backup.

Describes each of the officially-supported Cedar Backup extensions.

Specifies the Cedar Backup extension architecture interface, through which third party developers can write extensions to Cedar Backup.

Provides some additional information about the packages which Cedar Backup relies on, including information about how to find documentation and packages on non-Debian systems.

Cedar Backup provides no facility for restoring backups, assuming the administrator can handle this infrequent task. This appendix provides some notes for administrators to work from.

Password-less SSH connections are a necessary evil when remote backup processes need to execute without human interaction. This appendix describes some ways that you can reduce the risk to your backup pool should your master machine be compromised.