EU sovereignStorage & BackupHeadquarters: PL

Xopero: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Xopero is a Polish provider of backup and disaster-recovery solutions for businesses. Its range includes Xopero ONE Backup & Recovery as software, Xopero ONE MSP Backup for managed service providers, Xopero Unified Protection as a hardware appliance, and Sphere Recovery Drive, a portable tool for industrial (ICS/OT) systems. Management runs from a cloud-based console. Backups can be sent to Xopero Cloud or to other targets such as AWS, Azure or local NAS storage, which makes hybrid and multi-cloud setups possible.

Xopero is a Polish company, and its website names no non-European parent. For the EMEA region, the Xopero ONE management platform is hosted in Poland and Xopero Cloud storage is located in Amsterdam. Storage locations also exist in Virginia (US) and Sydney, and the location follows the region of the management panel. If you choose third-party storage such as AWS or Azure, that choice determines where your backup data resides. When setting up, check which region your account uses.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-645
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

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 October 9, 2026

Headquarters	PL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Storage & Backup
Type	Product
Website	xopero.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 Xopero

The European alternatives to Xopero come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Xopero

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

Xopero hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Xopero is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

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

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Xopero 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 Xopero?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Xopero 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 Xopero GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Xopero is headquartered in PL (EU) and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. That makes Xopero 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 October 9, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

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".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): xopero.com/terms/data-processing-agreement/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 23, 2026.

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