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OpenText Data Protector
Your databases, VMs and file servers each have their own backup routine. They should share one schedule and one catalogue — OpenText Data Protector runs one Cell Manager that backs up physical servers, VMware, Hyper-V, AHV and KVM guests and online databases such as SAP HANA and Oracle, writing copies to disk, tape, dedupe appliances or object storage — on infrastructure you choose, in India if you want.
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The OpenText platform family
This page covers OpenText Data Protector — the self-hosted backup software, with Data Protector for Cloud Workloads as a separately licensed sibling. The rest:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Centrally managed backup and recovery to disk, tape, dedupe appliances and cloud object storage
- Maker
- OpenText (Open Text Corporation), Waterloo, Ontario; listed as OTEX; led by CEO Ayman Antoun
- Lineage
- Began as OmniBack under HP; HPE, then Micro Focus from 2017, and OpenText since January 2023
- Status
- Name kept in OpenText’s 2025 rebrand; 26.2 is the newest release in OpenText’s documentation
- Price
- Not published; quoted by OpenText and partners, with a 90-day instant-on trial licence
- Licence
- Premium per front-end TB, Express per hypervisor CPU socket, or traditional feature-based keys
- Platforms
- vSphere 7.0–9.0.1, Hyper-V 2025, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat KVM; Windows, Linux and UNIX clients
- Sibling
- Data Protector for Cloud Workloads, licensed apart, adds Microsoft 365, Proxmox and Kubernetes
- India
- OpenText hosts no backup data; the Cell Manager and every copy sit on infrastructure you choose
- In India via
- TechBag — licence-model choice, front-end TB sizing, quote in INR with GST, first restore test
Understand enterprise backup software before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is enterprise backup software?
One central scheduler copies servers, VMs and databases to disk, tape or cloud, and keeps a catalogue to restore from.
A backup tool per platform vs one Data Protector cell — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | A backup tool per platform | OpenText Data Protector |
|---|---|---|
| Tools in use | One backup tool per platform or team | One cell schedules every client and device |
| Database backups | Scripts that dump files at night | Online agents for SAP HANA, Oracle and SQL |
| Copies | One copy on the backup server’s disk | Disk for speed, tape or object storage for the copy |
| Finding a failed job | Reading logs on several servers | Dashboard alerts and session reports in one place |
| Licence counting | Drives, slots and agents tallied yearly | Front-end TB or sockets, under Premium or Express |
| What it is NOT | — | SaaS, a hosted vault, or a published price |
The cheapest test is the 90-day instant-on licence: one Cell Manager, one database agent, one disk and one tape target, and a timed restore.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Cell Manager
One Cell Manager on Windows or Linux runs the session managers and keeps the Internal Database, which records sessions, media and what each backup holds.
Agents
A Disk Agent reads data on each client, a Media Agent writes it to the device, and integration agents back up databases such as SAP HANA and Oracle online.
Devices
Copies go to tape libraries, StoreOnce or Data Domain appliances, the built-in Deduplication Store, or object storage such as Amazon S3, Azure, Ceph and Scality.
MoM
A Manager-of-Managers groups several cells and can hold their licences centrally; in 26.2 client installs and updates moved into the web interface.
One Cell Manager and its catalogue — agents on every client, copies to tape, dedupe appliances or object storage.
Nine capabilities. Protect, secure, recover.
OpenText Data Protector schedules every backup from one Cell Manager and sends the copies to disk, tape or cloud.
Databases backed up while running
Online integration agents cover Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, SAP HANA, Exchange and SharePoint without stopping them.
VMware, Hyper-V, AHV and KVM
Image-level backup of vSphere 7.0 to 9.0.1, Hyper-V 2025, Nutanix AHV and Red Hat KVM; 26.2 adds HPE VM Essentials.
Zero-downtime array backups
Zero Downtime Backup copies array snapshots instead of reading live disks, and Instant Recovery restores from those snapshots.
Copies that cannot be altered
Retention locks on Data Domain (26.2) and StoreOnce Catalyst (25.4), plus tape, keep chosen copies safe from deletion.
Check a VM before restoring it
Scan policies in 26.2 run ClamAV or Microsoft Defender over backed-up VMs, from distributed scan hosts, before a restore.
MFA, roles and encryption
Multi-factor sign-in, role-based security and LDAP integration guard the console; data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
Rebuild a dead server
Centralised bare-metal recovery restores a whole system to physical or virtual hardware, and OpenText charges nothing extra for it.
One file from a VM image
Granular Recovery Extension mounts a VM backup and pulls single files, with a set retention for mounted disks since 25.4.
Restores jump the queue
From 26.2 a restore runs next as soon as the active backup finishes, rather than waiting behind every queued job.
Watch OpenText Data Protector in action
What changed up to version 24.4, the security controls, the SAP HANA integration, and the separately licensed Cloud Workloads sibling. All from OpenText’s official how-to channel, 2024–25; 26.2 has added more since.
What's new in OpenText Data Protector from version 10.90 to version 24.4
Thirteen minutes on what changed across releases up to 24.4; 25.x and 26.2 have added more since.
What is new in OpenText Data Protector Security
A five-minute tour of the security controls added to the Cell Manager and console.
OpenText Data Protector SAP Hana integration for backup and recovery
How the SAP HANA integration backs up and restores a running database through Data Protector.
Data Protector for Cloud Workloads General Overview
The separately licensed sibling for Microsoft 365, containers and other hypervisors, in six minutes.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough for your environment?
Book a guided demo →Every platform grows its own backup routine. Data Protector runs them all from one cell.
Here’s what genuinely sets it apart — and exactly where it stops.
Enterprise applications backed up while they run
Integration agents back up Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, SAP HANA, Exchange and SharePoint online, and 25.4 added SAP HANA zero-downtime backups to tape. FIS-ASP, an SAP host, says its clients’ databases keep full speed during backup.
Every kind of target, tape included
One cell writes to tape libraries, StoreOnce and Data Domain appliances, its own Deduplication Store, and Amazon S3, Azure, Ceph, Scality or IBM Deep Archive. That suits estates keeping an offline tape copy for ransomware or records rules, beside fast disk.
Three ways to license it
Premium is counted in front-end TB, the largest full backup of each object over 90 days, and includes the enterprise features. Express is counted per CPU socket on VMware or Hyper-V hosts. Traditional keys add drives and slots to a Starter Pack. A cell runs one model.
Where it stops
There is no public price and no OpenText-run SaaS edition. Microsoft 365, Proxmox and Kubernetes need the separately licensed Cloud Workloads product. OpenText is in Gartner’s backup MQ but not as a Leader. Several case studies date from its HP years.
The numbers behind the platform
What your OpenText Data Protector rollout looks like
Map the cell and the data
List clients, databases, hypervisors and tape devices, and measure the largest full backup of each to size front-end TB.
Pick the licence model
Compare Premium per TB, Express per socket and feature-based keys against your growth; one model runs per Cell Manager.
Stand up a trial cell
Install a Cell Manager in your Indian site on the 90-day instant-on licence, add agents and one disk and one tape target.
Prove the hard restores
Restore a SAP HANA or Oracle database to a point in time, run a bare-metal recovery and pull one file from a VM image.
Lock copies and go live
Turn on retention locks or a tape rotation, set malware scan policies for VM backups, then install the permanent keys.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Our SAP HANA backups go to disk and tape in the same run now. Basis stopped asking for a backup window at month-end.”
“We still keep a weekly LTO copy offsite for the auditors. Few modern tools treat tape as a first-class target; this one does.”
“Moving to capacity licensing ended the yearly count of drives and slots. Budget follows the front-end terabytes instead.”
“Granular recovery pulls a single file out of a VM image in minutes. Make sure the mount proxy has enough disk first.”
“Our AIX and Linux database servers sit in one cell with the Windows estate. The Internal Database needs regular care.”
“It is dependable, but the console has a learning curve and the quote took several rounds before we had a firm number.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the enterprise backup market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Enterprise Backup Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Quoted per front-end TB, per socket or by feature.
Target Breadth × Application Depth
The grid nobody publishes — how many kinds of backup target a product writes to vs how deeply it protects enterprise databases and operating systems.
Tape, B2D appliances, five object stores; SAP HANA, DB2, UNIX.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
OpenText Data Protector vs the enterprise backup field
Against Veeam Data Platform, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity NetBackup, Arcserve UDP and NAKIVO Backup & Replication — on workloads, licensing, price, scale, ransomware defence, targets, support and India.
| Dimension | OpenText Data Protector | Veeam Data Platform | Commvault Cloud | Cohesity NetBackup | Arcserve UDP | NAKIVO Backup & Replication |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Self-hosted backup | B&R, ONE, Orchestrator | All-workload platform | Ex-Veritas enterprise | Image backup + standby | Self-run backup suite |
| Deployment | Cell Manager you run | Server or hardened VA | SaaS, software or box | Software or Flex box | Software, SaaS console | NAS, appliance or server |
| Workloads covered | 4 hypervisors + big DBs | Six hypervisors, agents | Broadest of these six | VMs, NAS, big databases | Physical + 4 hypervisors | Five platforms, physical |
| Pricing model | TB, socket or feature | Per workload, portable | Per TB, three packages | Front-end TB editions | Per TB, OS or socket | Per workload or socket |
| Published entry price | Not published | No list price | SaaS $58.50/TB a month | Quote only | $199/front-end TB a year | $2.45/workload a month |
| Included vs add-on | Premium bundles most | Orchestrator is Premium | DR in Autonomous | Edition sets the scope | CRS, Runbooks extra | Site Recovery tiered |
| Scale | Many cells under MoM | No edition cap | Up to multi-petabyte | Largest estates | Mid-size bands | Essentials stop at 50 |
| Ransomware defence | Locks, tape, VM scans | Hardened repos, checks | Anomaly + Threat Scan | YARA scans, WORM, PQC | WORM via add-on | Immutable, 4 AV engines |
| Targets and integrations | Tape, B2D, object stores | Tape, object, Kasten | On-prem, edge, 3 clouds | MSDP dedupe, cloud | Clouds, tape on Premium | Tape, dedupe, 6 clouds |
| Governance and access | MFA, RBAC, LDAP | MFA, four-eyes | Plans set policy | Behaviour watch, STIG | RBAC on Premium only | 2FA, AD; RBAC top tier |
| India storage | Wherever you run it | Yours; Vault in India | India SaaS region | Your own site | Your site or bucket | Yours; AWS Mumbai listed |
| Support | Contract; Premium option | 24/7, 1 h for Sev 1 | 24x7, 30 min Sev 1 | 24x7 sold separately | Sev 1: 1 business hour | 24/7 on subscription |
| Lock-in and exit | Keys tied to the cell | Portable licence | Deep single platform | Three paths forward | Your storage, its format | Restores after expiry |
| Best fit | SAP, UNIX, tape estates | Veeam-skilled VM estates | Large, regulated estates | Existing NetBackup sites | Self-run mid-size teams | Mid-size, price-led |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose OpenText Data Protector if…
- ✓SAP HANA, Oracle, DB2 or Sybase databases must be backed up online, and some copies still have to go to tape
- ✓Your estate mixes Windows, Linux and UNIX servers with VMware, Hyper-V, AHV or KVM, and you want one catalogue
- ✓You have run Data Protector since it was sold as HP or Micro Focus Data Protector, and want to stay current at 26.2
Compare alternatives if…
- ✓Budgeting needs a number up front — NAKIVO and Arcserve UDP print list prices, and Commvault prints its SaaS rates
- ✓You would rather not run the backup server — Commvault Cloud has SaaS with an India region
- ✓Microsoft 365 and Kubernetes matter as much as servers — here they need the separate Cloud Workloads product
Do not expect…
- ✓A rate card, or a cloud-hosted edition that OpenText operates for you
- ✓A Gartner Leader placement — OpenText is included in the backup MQ, not as a Leader
- ✓Microsoft 365 or Proxmox protection inside the base Data Protector licence
OpenText Data Protector is one of 27 backup & recovery products TechBag carries. The Backup & Recovery guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What does scattered backup cost you?
Drag the sliders (servers and VMs you back up; backup-admin hour cost). Estimates model admin time spent chasing failed jobs across separate tools, running database backups by script and restoring by hand, at an assumed 1.5 hours per server a year, with 70% of it saved by one Cell Manager, online agents and central reporting. Both figures are assumptions. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Quote only. OpenText publishes no price for Data Protector. Premium is licensed per front-end TB — the largest full backup of each object over the last 90 days — and includes the enterprise features; Express is licensed per CPU socket on VMware or Hyper-V hosts; the traditional model starts from a Starter Pack and adds drives, library slots and extensions. One model runs per Cell Manager, and a 90-day instant-on licence unlocks everything for a trial. Data Protector for Cloud Workloads is priced separately. OpenText shows no rupee price. TechBag sizes your front-end TB first, then quotes in INR with GST.
Data Protector Premium
Best for growing, mixed estates
- Licensed per front-end TB
- Online agents, ZDB, encryption included
- Extra copies add no licence cost
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
Data Protector Express
Best for VMware and Hyper-V estates
- Licensed per hypervisor CPU socket
- All VM features, granular recovery
- Upgrade to Premium with a new key
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your requirements and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
What is the largest full backup of each object over 90 days? That figure, not disk used, sets a Premium licence.
Premium, Express or feature-based? One model per Cell Manager, so decide before you split the estate into cells.
Is every hypervisor and OS on the support matrix — vSphere 7.0–9.0.1, Hyper-V 2025, AHV, KVM and your UNIX releases?
Which databases need online agents — SAP HANA, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server — and do any need array snapshots?
Where does the offline copy go: tape, a locked Data Domain or StoreOnce, or object storage in an Indian region?
Do Microsoft 365, Proxmox or Kubernetes need cover? That is the separately licensed Cloud Workloads product.
Is a support agreement in the quote? Upgrading to new versions needs active support covering every licence in use.
Does the quote name the model, TB or sockets, extensions and support term? Ask for INR with GST and renewal terms.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate OpenText Data Protector?
Measure your front-end TB and choose a licence model first, or let a TechBag advisor stand up a trial cell in your Indian site and get the quote itemised in INR.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.