Managed backup for business
Caryvane backs up the machines you look after and writes them straight into storage you already own and control — your S3 bucket, your Azure account, your SFTP server, your NAS. No vendor lock on the one copy of your data that matters.
What it does
Most jobs run on an agent installed on the machine. A cloud-to-cloud job can do the same, or run on a hosted worker instead — set per job, so you decide whether the data passes through your own hardware or never touches it.
Scheduled or continuous, to whichever storage you have pointed it at.
Mount object storage as an ordinary drive and work from it directly.
Ask an assistant about your backups, or have it run one — from Claude, ChatGPT or VS Code.
Back up one provider straight into another, and choose what the data passes through.
Mail, OneDrive and SharePoint copied out to storage you hold.
Eleven, at either end
Caryvane holds no copy of your data and sells you no storage. You supply the credentials to somewhere you already trust, and the backups land there in a form you can read without us. The same list works in both directions, so a job can read from one of these and write to another.
Where it runs
The agent is the same product on each, and the differences are the ones the operating systems impose rather than ones we chose.
| Platform | Backup | Cloud drive | Installs as |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows11 and Server | Yescaptures files that are open and in use | Yes | MSI, silent install supported |
| macOS26 and later, Apple silicon and Intel | Yes | Yes | Signed and notarised .pkg |
| Linuxx86-64 and arm64 | Yes | Yes | .deb and .rpm, systemd service |
Administering it
Agents enrol with a deployment token, so a machine can be set up without anyone sitting in front of it. From there they check in, take their jobs, report what happened and update themselves.
Common questions
In storage you already own and control. You give Caryvane credentials for an Amazon S3 bucket, an Azure Blob container, an SFTP server, an SMB share or a NAS, and the backups are written there. Caryvane keeps no copy of your data and sells you no storage, so you can read your backups without us.
Yes. Caryvane runs an MCP server for Claude and VS Code Copilot, and exposes a Custom GPT Action for ChatGPT. Each user issues their own key and can revoke it, and the key carries one of four permission tiers: read-only, read plus start and cancel runs, plus create and edit jobs, or full including deletes. An assistant can be given exactly as much as you want it to have and no more.
Yes. A cloud-to-cloud job reads from any supported storage and writes to any other — an Azure Blob container into Amazon S3, an S3 bucket to SFTP, a SharePoint library onto a NAS. It can copy a whole container or a single prefix within one. You choose per job whether it runs on one of your own machines, so the data passes through hardware you control, or on a hosted worker so nothing of yours has to be switched on.
Windows 11 and Windows Server; macOS 26 and later on both Apple silicon and Intel; and Linux on x86-64 and arm64, packaged as .deb and .rpm. The same agent and the same console cover all three.
Yes. Mail, OneDrive and SharePoint are copied out to storage you hold. Runs are incremental by change token rather than a full sweep each time, older mail can be archived out of the mailbox, and individual items or whole mailboxes can be restored.
It mounts object storage as an ordinary drive, so files appear in Explorer or Finder and open in any application. Content is fetched on demand rather than synced wholesale, which means a drive can hold far more than the disk it appears on. Writes queue and upload in the background.
Either. Version history is kept according to your retention policy, and you can restore a single file from a chosen point in time, or a whole set, to the original location or somewhere else.
It is built for managing many machines rather than one. Agents enrol with a deployment token so a machine can be set up without anyone in front of it, then check in, take their jobs, report results and update themselves.
No. Installation is unattended on every platform — an MSI with silent install on Windows, a signed and notarised .pkg on macOS, and .deb or .rpm packages with a systemd service on Linux.
