Learn Obscura Vault.

Obscura Vault is a macOS app to preserve your original files: bring them into a library with the SHA-256 fingerprint of each one, package them into signed…

Install, activate the licence or continue without one, the main window, the first import.

Turn a folder into a project, the SHA-256 fingerprint of each file, rescan a folder that changed.

A project's .obf archive, compression and encryption, verification, restoring without overwriting anything.

On-demand or scheduled fixity audits, the dashboard, files to examine.

Verified, altered, not verifiable, never checked; archive verdicts.

The inventory of disks and tapes, the 3-2-1 rule, the replacement deadline.

S3 or compatible storage, a remote folder; send, verify, restore.

Back up now, retention, restore a backup.

What a certificate attests, issuing it, revoking it, having a third party verify it.

The audit log and each project's preservation journal.

What an archive contains, and why it stays readable without Vault.

Signing and encryption keys, their backups, Obscura Flow's keys.

What needs a licence, the account, devices, updates.

Non-conforming archive, unknown key, folder not found, licence to recheck…

The words of this guide.

Import a package written by Obscura Catalog, the report and the missing originals, sensitivity, the record, giving back.