Creating a Kloset Store

A Kloset store is Plakar’s immutable storage backend for backup data. This guide covers filesystem-based store creation. You can learn more in the Kloset deep dive article

$ plakar at /var/backups create

Plakar prompts for an encryption passphrase. To avoid the prompt, set:

$ export PLAKAR_PASSPHRASE="my-secret-passphrase"
$ plakar at /var/backups create

Configure store once, reference by alias in all commands:

$ plakar store add mybackups /var/backups passphrase=xxx

Use the configured store:

$ plakar at @mybackups create
$ plakar at @mybackups ls

$ plakar store set mybackups passphrase=yyy

Without specifying a path, plakar create uses ~/.plakar:

$ plakar create

Use aliases for:

• Stores requiring credentials (S3, cloud storage)
• Multiple stores with different configurations
• Avoiding repetitive path specifications