diff --git a/pkgs/tools/backup/obnam/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/backup/obnam/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e1d1ab30687..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/backup/obnam/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pythonPackages, attr }:
-
-pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication rec {
-  name = "obnam-${version}";
-  version = "1.22";
-
-  src = fetchurl rec {
-    url = "http://code.liw.fi/debian/pool/main/o/obnam/obnam_${version}.orig.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "0z3absbcpdk8zmmi6n3vwmwyv0pnzy7lp1rcsymb292p04alcn3x";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ pythonPackages.sphinx attr ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with pythonPackages; [ pycrypto paramiko tracing ttystatus cliapp larch pyyaml fuse ];
-
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = http://obnam.org;
-    description = "Backup program supporting deduplication, compression and encryption";
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.rickynils ];
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 5af0060cb80b..dc1ecf53ab6d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4270,8 +4270,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   objconv = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/objconv {};
 
-  obnam = callPackage ../tools/backup/obnam { };
-
   odpdown = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/odpdown { };
 
   odpic = callPackage ../development/libraries/odpic { };