plakar is a backup solution powered by Kloset and ptar
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plakar provides an intuitive, powerful, and scalable backup solution.
Plakar goes beyond file-level backups. It captures application data with its full context.
Data and context are stored using Kloset, an open-source, immutable data store that enables the implementation of advanced data protection scenarios.
Plakar’s main strengths:
- Effortless: Easy to use, clean default. Check out our quick start guide.
- Secure: Provide audited end-to-end encryption for data and metadata. See our latest crypto audit report.
- Reliable: Backups are stored in Kloset, an open-source immutable data store. Learn more about Kloset.
- Vertically scalable: Backup and restore very large datasets with limited RAM usage.
- Horizontally scalable: Support high concurrency and multiple backups type in a single Kloset.
- Browsable: Browse, sort, search, and compare backups using the Plakar UI.
- Fast: backup, check, sync and restore are operations are optimized for large-scale data.
- Efficient: more restore points, less storage, thanks to Kloset’s unmatched deduplication and compression.
- Open Source and actively maintained: open source forever and now maintained by Plakar Korp
Simplicity and efficiency are plakar’s main priorities.
Our mission is to set a new standard for effortless secure data protection.
Last update: 1 December 2025
