knoxite is a secure data storage & backup system.

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🔒 It's secure

knoxite uses AES-encryption to safely store your data.

💪 It's flexible

You can always extend your storage size or move your stored data to another machine.

🚀 It's efficient

knoxite cleverly de-duplicates your data before storing it and supports multiple compression algorithms.

🔗 It's connected

You can use multiple storage backends, even parallely: local disks, Dropbox, Amazon S3 & others.

❤️ It's OpenSource

knoxite is free software. Contribute and spread the word!

Installation

Make sure you have a working Go environment. Follow the Go install instructions.

To install knoxite, simply run:

git clone https://github.com/knoxite/knoxite.git
cd knoxite
go build ./cmd/knoxite/

Or use your favourite package manager:

# Arch Linux (btw)
yay -S knoxite-git

Run knoxite --help to see a full list of options.

Getting started

Initialize a repository

First of all we need to initialize an empty directory (in this case /tmp/knoxite) as a repository:

$ knoxite -r /tmp/knoxite repo init
Enter password:
Created new repository at /tmp/knoxite

knoxite encrypts all the data in the repository with the supplied password. Be warned: if you lose this password, you won't be able to access any of your data.

Initialize a volume

Each repository can contain several volumes, which store our data organized in snapshots. So let's create one:

$ knoxite -r /tmp/knoxite volume init "Backups" -d "My system backups"
Volume 66e03034 (Name: Backups, Description: My system backups) created

List all volumes

Now you can get a list of all volumes stored in this repository:

$ knoxite -r /tmp/knoxite volume list
ID        Name                              Description
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
66e03034  Backups                           My system backups

Storing data in a volume

Run the following command to create a new snapshot and store your home directory in the newly created volume:

$ knoxite -r /tmp/knoxite store [volume ID] $HOME -d "Backup of all my data"
document.txt          5.69 MiB / 5.69 MiB [#########################################] 100.00%
other.txt             4.17 MiB / 4.17 MiB [#########################################] 100.00%
...
Snapshot cebc1213 created: 9 files, 8 dirs, 0 symlinks, 0 errors, 1.23 GiB Original Size, 1.23 GiB Storage Size

When errors occur while storing individual data-chunks knoxite still tries to complete the store operation for the remaining chunks. You can toggle this behaviour to immediately exit on the first erroroneus data-chunk by setting the --pedantic command line flag.

List all snapshots

Now you can get an overview of all snapshots stored in this volume:

$ knoxite -r /tmp/knoxite snapshot list [volume ID]
ID        Date                 Original Size  Storage Size  Description
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cebc1213  2016-07-29 02:27:15       1.23 GiB      1.23 GiB  Backup of all my data
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    1.23 GiB      1.23 GiB

Show the content of a snapshot

Running the following command lists the entire content of a snapshot:

$ knoxite -r /tmp/knoxite ls [snapshot ID]
Perms       User   Group          Size  ModTime              Name
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-rw-r--r--  user   group      5.69 MiB  2016-07-29 02:06:04  document.txt
-rw-r--r--  user   group      4.17 MiB  2016-07-29 02:05:22  other.txt
...

Show the content of a snapshotted file

With the following command you can also print out the files content to stdout:

$ knoxite -r /tmp/knoxite cat [snapshot ID] document.txt
This is the sample text stored in document.txt

Restoring a snapshot

To restore the latest snapshot to /tmp/myhome, run:

$ knoxite -r /tmp/knoxite restore [snapshot ID] /tmp/myhome
document.txt          5.69 MiB / 5.69 MiB [#########################################] 100.00%
other.txt             4.17 MiB / 4.17 MiB [#########################################] 100.00%
...
Restore done: 9 files, 8 dirs, 0 symlinks, 0 errors, 1.23 GiB Original Size, 1.23 GiB Storage Size

Cloning a snapshot

It's easy to clone an existing snapshot, adding files to or updating existing files in it:

$ knoxite -r /tmp/knoxite clone [snapshot ID] $HOME
document.txt          5.89 MiB / 5.89 MiB [#########################################] 100.00%
other.txt             5.10 MiB / 5.10 MiB [#########################################] 100.00%
...
Snapshot aefc4591 created: 9 files, 8 dirs, 0 symlinks, 0 errors, 1.34 GiB Original Size, 1.34 GiB Storage Size

Mounting a snapshot

You can even mount a snapshot (currently read-only, read-write is work-in-progress):

$ knoxite -r /tmp/knoxite mount [snapshot ID] /mnt

Backup. No more excuses.

Configuration System

Knoxite comes bundled with a configuration system. You can declare shorthands for your repositories and provide default values for settings like encryption, compression or excludes. For more information refer to the documentation on our website or take a look into the knoxite config command.

Optional environment variables

Optionally you can set the KNOXITE_REPOSITORY and KNOXITE_PASSWORD environment variables to provide default settings for when no options have been passed to knoxite.