diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml
index 09d34b6f0356..ce58c4dc95b0 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1803.xml
@@ -231,6 +231,14 @@ following incompatible changes:</para>
       <literal>Option "XkbRules" "base"</literal> may result in broken keyboard layout.
     </para>
   </listitem>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      The <literal>attic</literal> package was removed. A maintained fork called
+      <link xlink:href="https://www.borgbackup.org/">Borg</link> should be used instead.
+      Migration instructions can be found
+      <link xlink:href="http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/upgrade.html#attic-and-borg-0-xx-to-borg-1-x">here</link>.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
 </itemizedlist>
 
 </section>
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/backup/attic/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/backup/attic/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 754e12e7f776..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/backup/attic/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchzip, python3Packages, openssl, acl, fetchurl, pkgconfig, fuse, attr, which }:
-
-let
-
-  # Old version needed for attic (backup program) due to breaking change in
-  # llfuse >= 0.42.
-  llfuse-0-41 = python3Packages.buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "llfuse-0.41.1";
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/l/llfuse/${name}.tar.bz2";
-      sha256 = "1imlqw9b73086y97izr036f58pgc5akv4ihc2rrf8j5h75jbrlaa";
-    };
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = with python3Packages; [ pytest fuse attr which ];
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ contextlib2 ];
-    checkPhase = ''
-      py.test
-    '';
-    # FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/bin'
-    doCheck = false;
-    meta = {
-      description = "Python bindings for the low-level FUSE API";
-      homepage = https://code.google.com/p/python-llfuse/;
-      license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl2Plus;
-      platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
-      maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ bjornfor ];
-    };
-  };
-
-in python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
-  name = "attic-${version}";
-  version = "0.16";
-  namePrefix = "";
-
-  src = fetchzip {
-    name = "${name}-src";
-    url = "https://github.com/jborg/attic/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "008566hhsd3ck70ql0fdn4vaqjfcnf493gwd49d6294f8r7qn06z";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages;
-    [ cython msgpack openssl acl llfuse-0-41 ];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    export ATTIC_OPENSSL_PREFIX="${openssl.dev}"
-    substituteInPlace setup.py --replace "version=versioneer.get_version()" "version='${version}'"
-  '';
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "A deduplicating backup program";
-    homepage = https://attic-backup.org;
-    license = licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.wscott ];
-    platforms = platforms.unix; # Darwin and FreeBSD mentioned on homepage
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ec861058266d..9836161b8120 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -546,10 +546,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   atomicparsley = callPackage ../tools/video/atomicparsley { };
 
-  attic = callPackage ../tools/backup/attic {
-    python3Packages = python34Packages;
-  };
-
   autoflake = callPackage ../development/tools/analysis/autoflake { };
 
   avfs = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/avfs { };