Transitioning from Alike Backup to Xen Orchestra

With the announcement of Quadric Software’s closure, removing commercial support for Alike Backup, many businesses are now faced with the challenge of finding a reliable, future-proof backup solution for their virtual infrastructure. While Alike Backup has long been a trusted tool for managing backups in XCP-ng and XenServer environments, Xen Orchestra presents itself as the ideal successor for this type of infrastructure, offering advanced features and being natively compatible with your existing infrastructure.

🙏 A word about Alike

We want to take a moment to thank the Alike team for their incredible work over the years. During discussions with their team, we found ourselves aligned on many philosophical aspects, especially the commitment to their customers. Also, we deeply appreciate that before ending their activities, Alike has chosen to make their code open-source. This decision ensures that years of development and innovation won’t just disappear, keeping the door open for the community to continue building on their foundation. It's this very spirit of open source that we admire and embrace at Vates.

The light remains on for Alike, and we’re proud to be part of the same open-source ecosystem that values collaboration, transparency, and longevity.

We also want to extend our best wishes to everyone at Quadric Software, the team behind Alike, as they embark on new journeys. Your contributions have left a lasting mark on the virtualization community, especially the Xen one, and we hope to see continued success in your future endeavors.

✅ Choosing Xen Orchestra as your Alike alternative

Xen Orchestra has long been recognized as a powerful solution tailored specifically for managing XCP-ng and XenServer environments. With robust backup features, it offers an all-in-one platform for seamless virtual infrastructure management.

Comprehensive backup features

Xen Orchestra offers a range of backup options designed to fit your business needs, ensuring maximum flexibility and security for your virtual machines:

• Full backups: Create a complete backup of your VM's disk and metadata, ensuring that no critical information is missed.
• Incremental backups: Save time and storage by only backing up changed data, speeding up the process and reducing resource usage.
• Incremental replication: Stay protected with near real-time data replication to ensure your infrastructure remains resilient.
• Encryption: Protect your backups with end-to-end encryption, securing your data both in transit and at rest.
• Backup scheduling and retention: Set up regular, automated backups with full control over scheduling and retention policies.
• Mirror backup: add a specific schedule for replicating your backup to another place, like an encrypted S3 storage outside your datacenter.

These features ensure that your virtual environments are secure, efficient, and easy to manage, offering very similar options as the one you had with Alike.

Seamless transition for Alike Backup users

We understand that migrating from one platform to another can be daunting, especially when it comes to crucial services like backup solutions. That’s why at Vates, we are committed to making this transition as smooth and stress-free as possible for users migrating from Alike to Xen Orchestra.

We'll provide assistance with our expert team, to help you at every step of the way, ensuring that your data is backup efficiently and securely with Xen Orchestra. The easiest transition path is to have backup done by both tools for a while, so you can be confident enough during the free 6 months trial until you are out of support from Alike.

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