Pluton is a self-hosted backup management platform that helps users create, manage, monitor, and restore encrypted backups from a web interface.
It uses Restic as its backup engine and Rclone for connecting to a wide range of local and cloud storage destinations, making it suitable for automated backup workflows across desktops, servers, and hosted services.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Automated incremental backups with encryption, compression, scheduling, and retention policies.
- Backup replication to multiple storage destinations for 3-2-1 backup strategies.
- Restore or download snapshot data from the web interface.
- Support for more than 70 storage providers through Rclone.
- Email, Slack, Discord, and NTFY notifications, with retry logic, logging, and script hooks.
Website: github.com/plutonhq/pluton
Support:
Developer: Towfiq I.
License: Apache License 2.0
Pluton is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| Restic Browser | Simple restic backup GUI built with Tauri |
| resticterm | Terminal-based UI written in C# |
| kubackup | Web UI written in Go |
| Pluton | Self-hosted backup management platform |
| Resticity | Cross-platform UI for restic, built with Wails |
| Restic Backup GX | Simple GUI built with Electron and Vue3 |
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Thanks so much for writing about Pluton Steve. It helps a lot. I am overjoyed 😀
It would be awesome if you could also link to Pluton’s website.