Resilient, encrypted backups for your Google Drive environment

Back up your Google Drive workloads with Plakar to protect against data loss, corruption, and ransomware. Create immutable, encrypted, and verifiable backups for your Google drive data.

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Google Drive is convenient, but not a backup

Google Drive is a widely used cloud storage and collaboration platform for individuals and businesses, enabling teams to store, share, and edit files across devices in real time. While Google Drive excels at synchronization and collaboration, it is not designed to provide independent backups, long-term retention, or recovery. Accidental deletion, malicious changes, or account compromise can permanently affect your data. Plakar creates encrypted, deduplicated, and versioned snapshots of your Google Drive data, stored wherever you choose, easily restorable and fully under your control.

Why protecting Google Drive matters

Google Drive is central to everyday work and collaboration, but synchronization is not a backup solution. Actions taken in Google Drive are synced to all connected devices almost instantly. This leaves it vulnerable to:

  • Accidental Deletion: Files removed by a user are quickly removed across all devices and shared workspaces.
  • Overwrites and Corruption: Bad edits or corrupted files replace healthy versions across the entire environment.
  • Ransomware: Malware-encrypted files are synchronized back to Google Drive, overwriting clean data.

Native retention and recovery options are limited in scope and duration. For business‑critical or compliance‑sensitive data, an independent and immutable backup history is essential.

Google Drive Shared Responsibility Model

Google drive operates under a shared responsibility model where Google secures the infrastructure, you’re responsible for protecting your data. Plakar ensures you meet your side with independent, verifiable backups.

To learn more about the general idea about the shared responsibility model you can check the docs on Why your should backup your SaaS.

Security and compromise

Access to Google Drive is tied to user accounts, credentials, and connected applications. If any of these are compromised:

  • Mass data loss can occur within minutes
  • Malicious changes are synchronized automatically
  • Recovery windows may be limited or unavailable

Plakar mitigates these risks by creating immutable snapshots of your data that cannot be altered or deleted. Backups are encrypted end‑to‑end, with keys that you own, ensuring privacy and control even if the Google account itself is compromised.

How Plakar secures your Google Drive workflows

Plakar integrates with Google Drive as a flexible bridge for your data:

  • Source Connector: Take snapshots of your Google Drive files and store them in a secure Kloset Store.
  • Storage Connector: Use Google Drive as a vault to store encrypted and deduplicated Plakar backups from other sources.
  • Destination Connector: Restore verified snapshots directly back into Google Drive when needed.

Plakar uses deduplication to minimize storage space and bandwidth usage while preserving full snapshot history.

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Security by design

Reduce your attack surface by keeping encryption keys out of storage. With true end-to-end encryption, your data is protected before it leaves the source and remains unreadable even to your storage provider.

  • End-to-end encryption with modern crypto (no compromise on "at-rest/in-transit")
  • Immutable snapshots with verifiable integrity
  • Tamper-proof metadata and audit logs
  • Zero-trust-friendly architecture
"You don’t have to trust your storage provider."
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Regroup all your data protection workflows in one platform

From edge devices to SaaS platforms and hybrid clouds, Plakar keeps your data safe, synced, and instantly restorable: all from one unified tool.

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Whether you're backing up remote laptops, on-premise servers or third-party SaaS data, Plakar gives you full control. Immutable backups, minimal storage, full flexibility. Even in disconnected environments.

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