Backup S3, Google Drive, iCloud, Notion with Plakar

Backup S3, Google Drive, iCloud, Notion with Plakar

From DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling by Bret Fisher

March 20, 2026 · 1h 9m · Episode 192

About this episode

Bret Fisher interviews the founders of Plakar about innovative backup engineering techniques.

Bret is joined by the founders of Plakar - Julien Mangeard and Gilles Chehade - to nerd out over backup engineering. The kind where you're building your own file formats and cryptographic layers, not just wiring up cron jobs. We get into how Plakar deduplicates and encrypts at the source so your cloud provider never sees your keys. Also, their snapshot model has no chain dependencies, which means you can delete any backup without breaking the others. We had a fun hour of backup horror stories, ransomware pragmatism, where I'm lobbying hard for a Docker volume integration. Check out the video podcast version here: https://youtu.be/OPRK5osKQHI 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wanting to learn the latest CI/CD automation and dive into Agentic DevOps. Meetups are happening now, with new course videos dropping every few weeks. Join the Guild and become your team's leader in AI for infrastructure automation https://www.bretfisher.com/theguild 🍾 ★Show Links★ Plakar website Plakar Github Repo Plakar demo Plakar on X Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Julien…

People in this episode

Host: Bret Fisher

Guests: Julien Mangeard, Gilles Chehade

Topics covered

  • backup engineering
  • cloud storage
  • encryption
  • data deduplication
  • DevOps

Keywords

  • file formats
  • cryptographic layers
  • cloud provider
  • snapshot model
  • backup horror stories
  • ransomware

Mentioned in this episode

Products: S3, Google Drive, iCloud, Notion, Agentic DevOps, Plakar

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