plakar - Effortless backup

Introduction

plakar is designed for effortless and secure data protection. It provides an intuitive, powerful, and scalable backup solution.

plakar is:

• effortless: easy to use
• secure: provide true end-to-end encryption for data and metadata
• reliable: backups are stored in an immutable repository
• scalable vertically: back up and restore very large data set with little RAM
• scalable horizontally: high concurrency support, multiple backups in a single repository
• searchable: browse your snapshots from plakar UI, sort, search and compare data
• fast: backup, check, sync and restore are fast (beta is optimized for large data sets, optimization for small one are in progress)
• efficient: more restore points, less storage space, with unmatched deduplication and compression rates
• Open Source and well maintained: open source forever and now maintained by Plakar Korp

plakar is providing useful features:

• instant recovery: mount instantly large backup on any devices
• distributed backup: synchronize your backup repository to implement simple (3,2,1 rule) or complex (push, pull, sync) strategies
• granular restore: restore a complete snapshot or only a set of files
• cross-storage restore: for example back up from S3 to restore on a file system
• production safe-guarding: automatically increase or decrease backup speed to protect your production workloads (very limited on beta)
• lock free maintenance: garbage collect without production interruptions (under testing, beta has a security lock)
• connectors: back up any source (file systems, object stores, SaaS applications...) with granular restore (limited in beta)

Simplicity and efficiency are plakar's main priorities.

Requirement

plakar requires Go 1.23.3 or higher, it may work on older versions but hasn't been tested.

Installing the CLI

go install github.com/PlakarKorp/plakar/cmd/plakar@latest

Quickstart

plakar quickstart: https://docs.plakar.io/en/quickstart/

A taste of plakar (please follow the quickstart to begin):

$ plakar at /var/backups create                             # Create a repository
$ plakar at /var/backups backup /private/etc                # Backup /private/etc
$ plakar at /var/backups ls                                 # List all repository backup
$ plakar at /var/backups restore -to /tmp/restore 9abc3294  # Restore a backup to /tmp/restore
$ plakar at /var/backups ui                                 # Start the UI
$ plakar at /var/backups sync to @s3                        # Synchronise a backup repository to S3

Documentation

For the latest information, you can read the documentation available at https://docs.plakar.io

Community

You can join our very active Discord to discuss the project !

Warning

plakar is currently in beta and NOT production ready yet but it is most definitely stable enough to be tested by others.

Feel free to give it a try, give feedback on what you like/dislike and report bugs.