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Self-hosted / open sourceStorage & BackupHeadquarters: AT

LINBIT: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

LINBIT develops software-defined storage, high-availability and disaster-recovery software for Linux environments. At its core are DRBD, a distributed replicated block device that mirrors block devices between hosts transparently to applications, and LINSTOR, block-storage management software with cluster-wide volume management. Together they let you build replicated block storage for containers, virtualisation and bare metal, including for Kubernetes through the LINSTOR Operator. LINBIT sells certified binaries and support; the software runs in your own environment, including offline.

LINBIT HA-Solutions GmbH is based in Vienna, Austria; the company also lists LINBIT USA, LLC in Oregon. DRBD is free software under the GNU General Public License version 2. Because you host the software yourself, you decide where the data resides. Organisations should still review the support terms to see whether any remote access to their systems is involved.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 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-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked July 2, 2026
HeadquartersAT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryStorage & Backup
TypeProduct
Websitelinbit.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to LINBIT

The European alternatives to LINBIT come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 LINBIT

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

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so LINBIT scores best on data residency.

LINBIT is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs LINBIT 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 LINBIT?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to LINBIT include Acronis, Atempo and Bacula Systems. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to LINBIT?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to LINBIT include Bacula Systems, Bareos and BorgBackup. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is LINBIT GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

LINBIT is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes LINBIT an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center
linbit.com/legal-notice/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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