OpenText™ Server Backup

Secure, simple server backup

Protect business-critical systems with fast, flexible backup and recovery.  

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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.”

Customizable layers of protection

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

Resources

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OpenText™ Server Backup

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FAQs

We support 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.