OpenText Server Backup
Secure, simple server backup
Protect business-critical systems with fast, flexible backup and recovery.
Why server backup matters
Downtime and data loss are expensive. Whether caused by ransomware, accidental deletion, hardware failure, or natural disaster, losing access to business-critical data can disrupt operations, damage reputation, and lead to costly compliance violations.
Small and midsize businesses often face resource constraints that make complex backup systems hard to manage. Yet the threats don’t discriminate by company size. You need a straightforward way to ensure your data is backed up, secure, and ready for recovery at a moment’s notice.
Solution overview
OpenText Server Backup delivers reliable, comprehensive protection for physical, virtual, and legacy systems. It supports over 200 platforms and applications, offers flexible deployment models (on-premises, cloud, or hybrid), and includes integrated hardware and software backed by award-winning support. With forever-incremental backups, cloud failover options, and granular restore capabilities, it provides business continuity and peace of mind—without adding operational complexity.
Key Benefits
Restore full systems, individual files, or application data in minutes.
Protect servers locally, in the cloud, or with a hybrid setup.
Failover critical systems to the cloud to keep operations running.
Retention options up to seven years support audit-readiness.
Manage everything from a single, unified platform.
Features and capabilities
Forever-incremental, immutable backups
Cloud failover and simple failback
Support for 200+ OSes, platforms, and apps
Rapid VM recovery (including Hyper-V)
Application-consistent backups for SQL, Exchange, SharePoint
Built-in ransomware detection and alerts
Dynamic bandwidth throttling and advanced compression
Role-based access and compliance-aligned controls
How it works
After the initial full backup, OpenText Server Backup captures only incremental changes, reducing backup time and storage usage. Backup data is automatically replicated to the cloud and stored in immutable formats to ensure integrity. In the event of failure, recover an entire server using bare-metal restore, spin up a virtual machine within minutes, or restore individual files and folders. Cloud failover allows mission-critical systems to keep running even if the local environment goes down, with seamless failback when systems are restored. Built-in ransomware monitoring alerts you to threats and enables quick recovery from uncompromised backup “safe sets.”
- The local backup server connects to the host and takes a backup of the selected systems.
- The backed-up data is compressed, reducing the data footprint, minimizing the impact on the network and accelerating uploads to the cloud since less data needs to be transferred.
- Once seeded, the server performs incremental backups, recording only changes.
- The backup server updates on a set schedule, while sending changes securely on a separate schedule to the cloud.
Customizable layers of protection
Cyber resilience built for MSPs
Empower clients with security and backup solutions in a single console.
Our Server Backup – Public Cloud solution strengthens cyber resilience by integrating with the OpenText™ Secure Cloud. It unifies server backup, security, and management tools into a single multi-tenant platform that simplifies support and reduces administrative overhead for Managed Service Providers (MSPs).
With fast, flexible recovery that restores everything from individual files to full servers, MSPs can keep clients running through outages to minimize costly downtime and customer churn. Backing up to MSP-owned AWS public cloud environments helps providers scale their business and control costs. At the same time, forever-incremental backups further reduce storage costs and bandwidth use. All while regional residency options help maintain compliance, no matter where customers reside.
What our customers say
With OpenText, we were up and running fast and scheduled our initial seeding around the school day. Now our backups run every night, in about 60 minutes.
Jeffrey Ryan
Director of IT
Danville Area School District
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Frequently Asked Questions
Opentext supports over 200 operating systems and applications, including Windows, Linux, IBM platforms, VMware, Hyper-V, SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, and Oracle.
With rapid VM recovery, you can restore a virtual machine in as little as two minutes, even large VMs.
Cloud failover is available as an optional add-on for critical systems that require high availability.
Yes, we offer granular recovery options so you can restore exactly what you need, no more, no less.
Backups are stored in immutable formats, and the system includes built-in ransomware monitoring with alerts and guided recovery steps.
Flexible retention policies range from one year up to seven years to support data governance and compliance requirements.
No. The system supports automated job scheduling, tag-based backup jobs, and verification reports to streamline operations.
Yes. It supports compliance with SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, FERPA, GDPR, and GLBA.