Category: Storage & Backup
8 European alternatives to croit — GDPR-compliant & EU-hosted.
German (Munich); management software for Ceph and DAOS storage clusters.
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Facts
- Headquarters
- DE (EU)
- Category
- Storage & Backup
- Type
- Product
- GDPR-compliant
- Yes
- Open-source
- No
- Data hosting
- Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)
Sources
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Compliance evidence
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Technical hosting signal
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- Network
- CROIT - croit GmbH, DE (DE)
Provenance:Technically measured
Sovereignty profile of croit
How this vendor scores on the five dimensions of the Digital Sovereignty Heatmap: 0 is sovereign, 100 is high exposure. These are the same scores the assessment uses.
| Jurisdictional exposure (JES) | Headquartered in the EU: European law applies | 0 |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency (DRS) | EU-only hosting | 0 |
| Cryptographic key sovereignty (CKS) | Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control | 20 |
| Platform lock-in (PLS) | Closed source: switching requires data migration | 60 |
| Source & runtime sovereignty (SRS) | Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure | 20 |
| Average | 20 |
Why digital sovereignty matters with croit
croit is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.
croit 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.
croit 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 croit together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.
Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to croit
The European alternatives to croit come from our knowledge base of over 3,600 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.
- Bacula Systems↗
Swiss enterprise backup company (Yverdon-les-Bains) providing commercial support and an enterprise edition built on the open-source Bacula backup engine (AGPLv3 core); self-hosted, cross-platform (mixed OS, containers, cloud) backup used by organizations including NASA and Swisscom; confirmed actively trading in 2026 via current marketing content and recent blog posts.
CH · open-source
- BorgBackup↗
Open-source deduplicating archival backup program with compression and encryption
DE · open-source
- euBackups↗
German backup and cyber-protection service for businesses and MSPs (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, servers, VMs, workstations, NAS), built on Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud; backups stored in Germany (Hetzner/Acronis Frankfurt). Independent Berlin-based UG with no foreign parent company.
DE · commercial
Frequently asked questions
What is the best European alternative to croit?
It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to croit 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 croit?
Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to croit 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 croit GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?
croit is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes croit an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.
Digital sovereignty in Storage & Backup
Storage & Backup: Business storage, backup solutions, object storage 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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