Alike DR: Backup & Disaster Recovery Software

“Easy to setup. Easy to maintain. Easy to Restore.”

—Paul Gaffney, Alike DR Customer
Protect your Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer), XCP-ng, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Windows physical environments from a single, easy-to-use BDR solution. Featuring our unrivaled deduplication for backup and replication, Changed Block Tracking (XenServer only) and cloud-based, offsite vaulting, Alike DR is our most comprehensive edition.


Disaster Recovery Software Free Trial

We offer a 30-day, no obligation free trial of Alike DR. If you are looking for comprehensive backup and disaster recovery software, get started by testing Alike in your environment with a free trial of Alike DR. Trial includes full support from our expert, in-house technical team. Learn why Alike DR is trusted by over 12,000 IT professionals around the world. Start your free trial today!

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Advanced Disaster Recovery Features and Functions

Secure offsite vaulting and fast, replication packaged with change block tracking (Citrix Hypervisor/XCP-ng only) and Alike Standard's full suite of backup protection.


Fast, Efficient Backups

With incremental forever file-system awareness and global deduplication, Alike provides quick backup performance across supported platforms.


Restore in Minutes

When disaster strikes, depend on Alike's intuitive design, lightweight footprint, and effortless administration to get you up and running again quickly.


Lightweight, Scalable Protection

Alike was designed to protect environments of every size and scale easily with your organization's changing needs - without consuming valuable system resources.

Web-based UI & Cloud-Based Vaulting

Manage your backups from any computer or mobile device with increased simplicity, speed, and visibility. Vault to the cloud with Amazon S3.


Flexible, Affordable Licensing

Our flexible licensing model is a cost-effective way to protect virtual hosts or physical machines.


Seamless Multi-Platform Protection

Replicate across hypervisors. Backup from Citrix XenServer or Microsoft Hyper-V and restore to either platform. Manage all your hypervisor backups from one location.


Caring, Personable Assistance

Our entire staff is devoted to helping you get the most from our solutions with a human-centered approach for sales and technical support.

VM Replication

High performance, delta-only scheduled replications ensure fast recovery times. Replicate across hypervisors and even physical to virtual.


Off-Site Vaulting

Requiring only a CIFS at the remote location, get full site-level recoverability with our intuitive, WAN-accelerated, deduplicated off-site vaulting.


Instant File-Level Restoration

You're never more than a right-click away from effortless file, folder, and database recovery from any Alike backup.


Multi-Platform Protection

Alike adapts easily to XenServer, Hyper-V, and now physical systems - allowing it to fit into your unique environment.


Agentless & Agent-Based Operation

You decide how you want Alike to work within your environment thanks to its agentless and agent-based technologies.

Global Data Deduplication

Gain tremendous storage savings from Alike's source-side, global, block-level data deduplication.


Disk and Memory State Backup

Protect and restore the memory of your running systems as easily as your disks.


Independent Drive Selection

Alike's ability to back up any or all drives in any VM allows for flexible integration with existing backup systems.


Customized Job Scheduling

Schedule your jobs to run daily, weekly, monthly, or multiple times a day.


Job Alerts and Notifications

Stay up to date on the success of your jobs with automated updates via the Alike console, system log, or email.

System Requirements 
The A2 itself can be run as a virtual machine, or can be installed directly on bare metal.  Please note- the A2 does not need to be running inside the environment it protects.  

A2 Platforms

Supported Hypervisors (for protection)

  • Citrix Hypervisor/XenServer 6.5- 8.2+
  • XCP-ng (7.4+)
  • Microsoft Hyper-V (2008 R2 - 2016)

A2 System Minimum Requirements

  • 1GB RAM
  • 16GB Disk Space

Backup Storage Requirements

  • Any compliant storage (Locally attached, CIFS, NFS, GlusterFS, etc)
  • Sufficient storage capability for your backup requirements
Pricing Comparison

Both Alike editions are licensed per socket to provide a scalable, affordable solution to protect your Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer), Microsoft Hyper-V, and Windows-based physical systems.

We provide customized quotes based on which edition of Alike you want, and the protection needs of your environment. Contact us at any time for a free custom quote.*

Alike Edition Virtual (XenServer/Hyper-V) Physical
Alike Standard Starting at $449 per socket Starting at $125 per socket
Alike DR Starting at $599 per socket Starting at $149 per socket

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*We proudly offer special pricing for academic nonprofits and government agencies, as well as volume discounting for large environments.

For special pricing, simply request a quote for nonprofits or volume discounts.

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