design overview

The design of Midnight Backup addresses/will address the following goals:

• Network Oriented
• Portability
• Fully Modular and Extensible Design
• Easy Add-On Creation
• "Bare Metal" Recovery through creation of custom boot disks
• Authentication and Encryption between clients and servers
• Bandwidth Usage Optimization for low-bandwidth connections
• The ability for users to recover their own data without admin intervention
• Multiple output media support (CDrom/CDrw, ftape, disk, etc)

docs

Our document manager has/will have design documents in it, also.

diagrams

Note that these diagrams are somewhat outdated, and don't really represent the current state of things.

Diagram 1 shows the flow of data in the client.

Diagram 2 shows the flow of data in the server.