Organization of This Manual
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## Organization of This Manual

Chapter 1, Introduction

  Provides some background about how Cedar Backup came to be, its history, some general information about what needs it is intended to meet, etc.

Chapter 2, Basic Concepts

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

Chapter 3, Installation

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

Chapter 4, Command Line Tools

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

Chapter 5, Configuration

  Provides detailed information about how to configure Cedar Backup.

Chapter 6, Official Extensions

  Describes each of the officially-supported Cedar Backup extensions.

Appendix A, Extension Architecture Interface

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

Appendix B, Dependencies

  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.

Appendix C, Data Recovery

  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.

Appendix D, Securing Password-less SSH Connections

  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.

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