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Back up and restore the Plakar Control Plane appliance itself

Protect the Plakar Control Plane appliance against hardware failure, misconfiguration, or a full appliance replacement. Plakar backs up its own configuration and internal database into an encrypted, deduplicated Kloset snapshot.

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The appliance managing your backups needs a backup too

Plakar Control Plane is itself a stateful system. It holds every inventory, resource, app, schedule, and policy that keeps your other backups running, and none of that is duplicated anywhere else by default. The PCP integration closes that gap by treating the running appliance as a resource like any other, so it can be captured, stored in a Kloset, and restored using the same workflow as everything else it protects.

Why back up the appliance itself?

Plakar Control Plane holds its own configuration and internal database: inventories, resources, apps, schedules, and policies. None of that is duplicated anywhere else by default, so losing the appliance means losing the record of everything it manages, not just the data it protects.

  • Hardware failure: a disk or instance failure can take down the appliance itself, independently of any of the resources it backs up.
  • Bad upgrades or misconfiguration: an appliance update or a configuration change gone wrong can leave Control Plane in a broken state that’s faster to restore from a backup than to repair by hand.
  • Full appliance replacement: migrating to new hardware or a new cloud instance normally means recreating every inventory, resource, app, and schedule from scratch.

How Plakar protects itself

The PCP integration treats the running appliance as a resource like any other, moving data in both directions:

  • Source Connector: connect to the running appliance, capture its configuration files and a dump of its internal database, then encrypt and deduplicate the result into a Kloset Store, independent of the appliance it came from.

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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.

For SaaS, endpoints & edge

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.

In your data center

Legacy systems or critical data. All backed up with the same simplicity. Plakar integrates directly into your infrastructure with powerful CLI, orchestration support, and instant recovery.

Across clouds

Cloud-native or multi-cloud? No problem. Plakar works seamlessly with object storage, S3-compatible services, and hybrid environments, without locking you in or slowing you down.

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