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+Foreword
+========
+
+WARNING: At the moment, consider khepri as alpha quality software, it is not
+yet finished. Do not use it for real data yet.
+
+Khepri
+======
+
+Khepri is a program that does backups right. It tries to fulfill the
+following design goals:
+
+ * Easy: Every obstacle that is between you and a working
+   backup solution, especially regarding complex or otherwise hard to use
+   software. Khepri should be easy to configure and use, so that in the
+   unlikely event of a catastrophic data loss, you are safe. Likewise,
+   restoring data should not be complicated.
+
+ * Fast: Backing up your data with khepri should only be
+   limited by your network or harddisk bandwidth. Ideally, you should backup
+   your files every day.  Nobody does backups if it is so slow it takes too
+   much time. Furthermore, restoring backups should only transfer data that
+   is needed for the files that are to be restored, so that restoring is
+   also fast.
+
+ * Verifiable: Much more important than backup is restore, so khepri makes it
+   easy to verify regularly that all data can be restored.
+
+ * Secure: Khepri uses cryptography to guarantee integrity and
+   confidentiality of your data. The location where the backups is assumed
+   to be a shared space where others (e.g. a system administrator) is able
+   to access your backups. Khepri is built to secure your data against such
+   attackers.
+
+License
+=======
+
+Khepri is licensed under "BSD 2-Clause License". You can find the complete text
+in the file `LICENSE`.