🧠 Why protecting OneDrive matters
Cloud sync is not backup. OneDrive’s convenience can mask risks: silent corruption, accidental deletion, ransomware, or compromised credentials can lead to rapid, irreversible data loss. Retention and version history help, but they’re not enough for compliance, audit, or long-term recovery. Without immutable, externalized backups, your files remain vulnerable to threats that propagate faster than you can react.
🔓 What happens when OneDrive is compromised?
If files are deleted locally, OneDrive syncs those deletions to the cloud sometimes before you notice. Ransomware or malware can encrypt files and sync the damage across all devices. A breach of your Microsoft account can expose or wipe entire libraries. Native recovery options are limited by retention windows and version history, which may not cover every scenario.
Plakar addresses these risks by:
- Creating immutable, encrypted snapshots outside your OneDrive account
- Enabling granular recovery of files or folders without full restores
- Supporting offline and air-gapped backup flows for true isolation
No matter what happens in your live OneDrive, your snapshots remain safe, verifiable, and restorable.
🛡️ How Plakar secures your OneDrive workflows
Plakar integrates with OneDrive as both a source and destination:
- Source connector: Import and snapshot your OneDrive files, encrypt and deduplicate them, and store in a trusted Plakar Kloset store.
- Destination connector: Export clean, verified snapshots back to OneDrive, restoring files or folders exactly as they were.
- Storage connector: Store Plakar snapshots on OneDrive itself, adding a self-managed, encrypted backup layer inside your existing cloud.
Snapshots are immutable, portable, and inspectable via CLI or UI even if stored offline.
🧰 Everything in one tool: backup, verify, restore, browse
With Plakar, you get:
- ✅ Immutable, versioned snapshots of your OneDrive data
- 🔐 End-to-end encryption (you own the keys)
- 🧠 Global deduplication to save space and bandwidth
- 🔎 Visual inspection and audit readiness via UI or CLI
- 📦 Offline export and long-term retention options
Plakar centralizes backup, verification, restore, and browsing making OneDrive truly resilient, compliant, and under your control.