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Iperius Backup: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Iperius Backup is backup software for Windows from the Italian company Enter Srl. It backs up files and folders, disk images for disaster recovery (including bare-metal restore), virtual machines on VMware, Hyper-V and Proxmox, databases such as SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL, and Microsoft 365 data. As destinations you can choose local or removable drives, NAS, FTP or SFTP servers, LTO tape and cloud services such as Amazon S3, Azure, Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive. A free edition exists, as do paid editions with a perpetual licence.

The software is installed locally and is not operated by the vendor as a cloud service; backups go to the destination you choose. Enter Srl is an Italian company, so it falls under European jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of your data therefore depends on the chosen destination: your own NAS or a European cloud provider keeps data in the EU, US cloud storage does not. The vendor also lists Italian and European destinations such as Aruba Cloud.

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Sovereignty score
80 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-680
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

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Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026
Headquarters
IT (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Personal Backup & Sync
Type
Product
Website
iperiusbackup.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Iperius Backup

The European alternatives to Iperius Backup come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Iperius Backup

Iperius Backup is headquartered in IT and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Iperius Backup runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Iperius Backup is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Iperius Backup together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Iperius Backup?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Iperius Backup include Acronis True Image, Ashampoo Backup and Backup4all. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Iperius Backup?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Iperius Backup include BorgBackup, Cryptomator and FreeFileSync. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Iperius Backup GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Iperius Backup is headquartered in IT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Iperius Backup an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Digital sovereignty in Personal Backup & Sync

Personal Backup & Sync: Personal backup tools, file synchronisation and data recovery. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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