Installation

To build Plakar from source. You will need:

• Go (Golang)
• make (available by default on most Linux distributions; on macOS, install the Xcode command line tools with xcode-select --install; on Windows, use WSL or a tool like GnuWin32 Make)

Clone the repository and run make:

$ git clone https://github.com/PlakarKorp/plakar.git
$ cd plakar
$ make

This produces a plakar binary in the current directory. To build a specific release version, check out the corresponding tag before running make:

$ git fetch --tags
$ git checkout tags/v1.1.3
$ make

Verify the installation by running:

$ plakar version

This should return the expected version number, for example plakar/v1.1.3.

All release versions of Plakar are available directly from GitHub on the project’s release page.

For each release, check under the “Assets” section for a list of pre-built packages. They follow the naming convention plakar_<version>_<os>_<arch>.<format>.

If you encounter any issues during installation:

• Ensure you are following the instructions for the correct version of plakar.
• Open an issue on the GitHub issue tracker.
• Ask for help on the Discord server.

Now that you have plakar installed, we recommend proceeding to the Quickstart guide to set up your first backup.