Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

Working on `plakar` (https://github.com/PlakarKorp/plakar) an opensource backup utility and all of its related libraries and tools :-)

We've recently released a new archive format called ptar, it can be found on HN if interested :-)

That sounds interesting. I would have appreciated a comparison to other unix command line tools (rsync, restic, borg).

What features are planned for the free version and which ones will need to be payed for?

We will publish a comparison but I'm cautious as it can easily look like an attack over what others do and I feel strongly about not being hostile to other open-source projects :-)

Long story short: we provide multi-source/multi-destination/multi-storage (ie: backup S3 to disk, restore to SFTP), we have a nice UI, we reimplemented our own database over CAS allowing us to have a virtual filesystem + a ton of nice features on top of the snapshots, + an archive format of our own and other nice features.

All of this is in the free version, what's going to be paid is plugins to backup commercial services, enterprise features like multi-user support, ACLs, or compliance related features (ie: GDPR / sensitive data detection, ...), backup orchestration over a pool of machines, and more.