Alike Software Overview
Learn how the industry-leading BDR software can meet all of your backup & recovery needs!
Never use cumbersome and inefficient scripts to backup Xen again! Alike Free offers powerful backup features for your Citrix XenServer or Hyper-V environments at no cost. Alike Free is the ideal solution for small setups, and spot solutions.
Completely free backups for XenServer and Hyper-V environments with a single host. Download today and preview a full edition of Alike DR for 30 days.
Rely on some of Alike's features and functionality like global deduplication and disk/memory state backups.
Alike's feather-light footprint doesn't interfere with your environment's valuable system resources, and scales easily to protect setups of any size.
Manage virtual and physical back ups and restoration from a single location intuitively and quickly - even across platforms.
Get access to our experienced, professional Support team with the purchase of an Alike Support Key.
Save on storage space and costs with Alike's source-side, global, block-level deduplication.
Disks and running system memory are protected and restored with the same ease.
Whether it's a XenServer, Hyper-V - or now physical systems - Alike adapts quickly to its surroundings.
You decide how you want Alike to work within your environment thanks to its agentless and agent-based technologies.
Alike's feather-light footprint doesn't interfere with your environment's valuable system resources, and scales easily to protect setups of any size.
Change Block Tracking support for XenServer and Hyper-V backups.
Schedule your jobs to run daily, weekly, monthly, or multiple times a day.
Stay up to date on the success of your jobs with automated updates via the Alike console, system log, or email.
Operating Systems
Windows XP SP2, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 10
2GB Ram
50 MB disk space
System Recommendations
Operating System: Server OS, 2008 or above
2GB RAM
5GB+ Disk Space
Backup Storage Requirements
Any CIFS compliant storage (or local storage on the Alike server)
Sufficient storage capability for your data volume
*Not compatible with storage devices that utilize WORM (write once, read many) technology; e.g. HCP Hitachi Data System. Additional information can be found here.
Documents:
Alike Release Notes
Use Case Documents:
Centralized Backup with Alike
Remote Office/Branch Office Backup with Alike
Current version:
Alike v3.5.1
Installer - 34MB
Release Notes | What's New
Older versions:
Alike v3.0.8
Installer - 34MB
Release Notes
Alike v2.6.2 | Free, Standard and DR & Offsite Recovery Console
Installer - 34MB
Looking for something even older? Just let us know! We'd be happy to send it to you.