Community Edition is the fastest way to evaluate XReplicator in your own environment. It is single-tenant and free for up to 5 protected VMs.

What Community Edition Is For

Use Community Edition when you want to:

• Evaluate XReplicator backup and restore workflows.
• Protect a small single-tenant environment.
• Test restore verification before a larger rollout.
• Validate cloud storage, retention, and Azure DR workflows in a lab.

Community Edition does not include MSP multi-tenancy, tenant isolation, or multi-operator Enterprise user management.

For multi-customer operations, tenant separation, larger fleets, or commercial support, review the MSP and Enterprise solution.

Get a License

Create an account and generate a signed Community license:

Get a free Community license 

After downloading the license file, place it where your backup server configuration expects it.

Install the License

For VM package installs, the default license path is:

/var/lib/backup/repo/license.json

Copy the downloaded license file to the backup server:

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/backup/repo
sudo cp license.json /var/lib/backup/repo/license.json
sudo chown backup:backup /var/lib/backup/repo/license.json

For Docker Compose or Helm installs, mount or create the license file using the steps in Quickstart.

Verify License Status

After starting the backup server, open the web UI and confirm the license status appears in Settings or the dashboard.

You can also review license details in Licensing.

Next Step

Once the license is active, use the Quickstart to run a first backup and prove one restore.

When your evaluation needs multiple tenants, more than 5 protected VMs, or commercial onboarding, move to the MSP and Enterprise path.