Private Archive

Offsite backup for small businesses

Confidential records, kept confidential.

Private Archive is encrypted offsite backup for accountants, consultants, clinics, and other small businesses that hold sensitive client information. Your files are encrypted on your own device before they leave it. We see ciphertext only.

Download client How it works
  • Open-source clients
  • Reproducible builds
  • No accounts, no passwords
  • No PII collected

How it works

Three steps. Your data is unreadable to us at every stage.

  1. 1

    Encrypted on your device

    The desktop client uses Restic to encrypt every file locally before it leaves your machine. Encryption keys never travel to our servers.

  2. 2

    Routed over Tor

    Backups travel to our servers over the Tor network, so your office IP address is not part of the transaction. We have no record of where you connect from.

  3. 3

    Settled in Monero

    Billing is metered in Monero (XMR). There is no credit card on file, no billing address, no invoice trail tied to your business name.

What we never see

Privacy is the product. Everything below is a design constraint, not a setting you have to enable.

  • Your name, business name, or contact details
  • Email addresses or phone numbers
  • Your IP address or geographic location
  • Device fingerprints or operating-system telemetry
  • File names, folder structure, or content
  • Payment cards or bank details

This design philosophy is aligned with how EU privacy law expects confidential business records to be handled: the safest data is the data we never collect.

Pricing

Pay-as-you-go in Monero. Top up a balance when you need to; the balance is consumed by the second of storage and any restore traffic. No subscription, no minimum commitment, no card on file.

Download the client

Open-source, reproducible builds. Verify your download against the SHA256SUMS file before installing.

macOS
arm64 · Apple Silicon
.tar.gz
macOS
amd64 · Intel
.tar.gz
Linux
amd64
.tar.gz
Linux
arm64
.tar.gz
Windows
amd64
.zip
Windows
arm64
.zip
FreeBSD
amd64
.tar.gz
FreeBSD
arm64
.tar.gz
OpenBSD
amd64
.tar.gz
OpenBSD
arm64
.tar.gz
Verify
SHA256SUMS
checksum file
Source
For security review
.tar.gz

For the people who advise our clients

Will my IT advisor approve this?

Likely yes. Encryption happens on the endpoint with Restic, an audited backup engine. Transport is over Tor. The clients are open source with reproducible builds, which means your advisor can independently verify what you are running.

Is this GDPR-aligned?

We design to the principle of data minimisation: we collect no personal data. That is the spirit of GDPR. We are not making a formal certification claim; we are telling you what we do and do not collect, so your DPO can make an informed call.

What if I lose my certificate?

The data is unrecoverable. We mean this plainly. Treat the certificate like the master key to your filing cabinet: store a sealed copy offsite, and rotate access when staff change.

How do I pay if I’ve never used Monero?

The desktop client walks you through it. Most small firms top up a small balance once a quarter and forget about it. There is no auto-renewal and no card on file.

Install & keep up to date

Every channel below installs the same reproducible, signed binaries. Verify direct downloads against SHA256SUMS; the apt, dnf and pacman repositories are GPG repo-signed with fingerprint 4792 23EA 8405 287A 11FB B12E 02A7 7A1E EDD0 F111.

Any platform — one line

curl -fsSL https://privatearchive.xyz/install.sh | bash

Or download a tarball for macOS, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD or OpenBSD (amd64 + arm64) — and the source — from the latest release.

Debian / Ubuntu — apt

curl -fsSL https://privatearchive.xyz/apt/release-key.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/privatearchive.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/privatearchive.gpg] https://privatearchive.xyz/apt stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/privatearchive.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install privatebackup

Fedora / RHEL — dnf

sudo curl -fsSL https://privatearchive.xyz/dnf/privatearchive.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/privatearchive.repo
sudo dnf install privatebackup

Arch — pacman

curl -fsSL https://privatearchive.xyz/pacman/release-key.asc | sudo pacman-key --add -
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 479223EA8405287A11FBB12E02A77A1EEDD0F111
printf '\n[privatearchive]\nServer = https://privatearchive.xyz/pacman\n' | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf
sudo pacman -Sy privatebackup

macOS — Homebrew

brew install https://privatearchive.xyz/brew/privatebackup.rb

Windows — Scoop

scoop install https://privatearchive.xyz/scoop/privatebackup.json