Open Source Veeam Alternatives
A curated collection of the 1 best open source alternatives to Veeam.
The best open source alternative to Veeam is Plakar. If that doesn't suit you, we've compiled a ranked list of other open source Veeam alternatives to help you find a suitable replacement.
Veeam alternatives are mainly Backup & Recovery. Browse these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Veeam.
A backup engine storing encrypted, deduplicated snapshots you can browse, diff, and verify without restoring, across files, databases, and Kubernetes.
Plakar creates snapshots of your data, stores them encrypted and deduplicated, and lets you inspect, verify, and restore them later. What it removes is the opaque backup: an archive you cannot look inside, cannot check, and only learn the truth about the day a restore fails.
Snapshots live in a Kloset, an immutable data store, and one or more of them can be exported as a ptar archive that stays self-contained, deduplicated, compressed, and encrypted. Encryption covers metadata as well as data, and the cryptography implementation has been audited. Plakar is driven from the command line or through its built-in web interface.
What sets it apart comes down to a few properties.
- Browsable snapshots: inspect contents, diff two snapshots, or restore a single file without touching the rest.
- Independent verification: every snapshot can be verified without restoring anything first.
- Cheap retention: deduplication and compression mean keeping many snapshots does not multiply storage costs.
- Integrations: a package manager adds sources and backends including PostgreSQL, MySQL, etcd, Kubernetes, and S3-compatible object stores.
- Distributed stores: Kloset stores synchronize across locations for 3-2-1 strategies and for push, pull, and sync workflows.
Building from source needs Go 1.23.3 or higher and a single go install, and prebuilt binaries are published for the usual platforms. Creating a repository, backing up a directory, listing snapshots, restoring, and opening the web interface are five short commands, which makes it a reasonable first backup tool for an engineer who wants no vendor lock-in.
