Alternatives to Plakar
An open-source encrypted, deduplicating backup tool with snapshots and a web interface for browsing restores. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Plakar
An open-source encrypted, deduplicating backup tool with snapshots and a web interface for browsing restores.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Plakar.
restic
A single-executable backup program that makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them almost anywhere.
restic is an older single-binary tool with encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and many cloud backends, but it has no web interface of its own.
BorgBackup
A deduplicating archiver for Linux, macOS and BSD that makes daily backups cost almost nothing beyond the day’s changes.
BorgBackup is a more established deduplicating archiver working over SSH, with FUSE-mountable archives, but it is command line only and primarily a Unix tool.
Kopia
An encrypted snapshot backup tool with both a command line and a proper desktop app, pointed at whatever storage you choose.
Kopia provides encrypted, deduplicated snapshots with a desktop app instead of a web interface, and it runs on Windows and macOS as well as Linux.
rustic
Create encrypted, deduplicated backups in restic-compatible repositories.
rustic creates encrypted, deduplicated backups in restic-compatible repositories and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, though it is also a younger project.
Duplicacy
A deduplicating cloud backup tool whose lock-free design lets several machines share one storage bucket.
Duplicacy lets several machines share one deduplicated storage bucket without a server, but its license is not open source and its web interface is paid.
Duplicati
A backup client with a web interface that encrypts your files and pushes them to more than twenty cloud services.
Duplicati offers encrypted incremental backups to many cloud services through a web interface and scheduler, but large restores can be slow.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Plakar as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
bup
Command-line backup system built on the git packfile format with deduplication and fast incremental saves.
Plakar adds encryption and a web interface for browsing and restoring deduplicated snapshots, though setup is command-line oriented and the project is younger.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Backrest
Schedule and restore restic backups through a browser interface.
Restic Browser
Browse and restore files from existing restic repositories.
BorgBase
A hosted storage service for BorgBackup and Restic repositories with monitoring and append-only mode.
Restic REST Server
Provide a remote REST storage endpoint for restic backups.
