We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and OpenText Data Protector based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Good scalability and virtual environment protection."
"The best feature is the DR replication for us."
"Dell's technical support are quite helpful with straightforward issues."
"I feel that it is a good product."
"The backup capabilities and the automatization of the backup - along with the potential to make the back up on a virtual machine - are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"When you reach out to your maximum license availability, or you exceed your license limit, NetWorker never stops doing your backups."
"The solution offers compatibility with many types of database systems. It is one of the largest backup solutions. Additionally, it gives important information about data domain systems with deduplication."
"The feature that offers the greatest benefits in ensuring data integrity is its backup capability."
"Ability to automatically detect and secure new data sources without requiring manual configuration intervention."
"Deduplication implementation with CAPA is very good."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The feature that was most valuable was that we could restore one mailbox and we could do different backups for different databases."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"The solution allows us to be able to backup and exchange directly, to backup Microsoft exchange."
"The initial setup was relatively easy."
"Backup of SAP/Oracle -- they are more robust than the competition."
"Since the product is not on the front banner of Dell, the support may not be the best."
"The web console could be a lot better."
"We have faced problems with the initial configuration of the solution."
"Regarding improvements for NetWorker, I believe implementing cross-platform restore functionality is essential. This feature would allow for compatibility with various backup software solutions, similar to Veeam."
"The software also isn't user-friendly like Convault or Rubrik. The solution errors and management aren't so good in comparison."
"Reporting and support for this product need to be improved. There are multiple bugs that need to be fixed."
"It's not easy to integrate. We have to read a lot of documentation in order to configure the solution."
"The licensing rules are difficult to navigate and understand."
"Integration with the market applications must be improved, such as MS Exchange, MS Active Directory, SAP and Oracle. Other backup tools are more efficient with the integrated backups."
"Many of our users complain about the GUI. You still need to rely on the command line interface. Because it originated as a Unix system, Data Protector is still a command line-driven solution, which makes it seem rather dated compared to systems that are built around a GUI from day one. It doesn't affect the functionality, but some people don't find it user-friendly."
"The online backups of Office 365 have room for improvement. This is now available for the Exchange Online part of Office 365, but we're still waiting for SharePoint Online, Teams, etc. We know that it's coming, but it takes time."
"The GUI could be updated. The GUI hasn't changed since version 6. It's on version 10 now. The reporting could also be better. Also, while Data Protector is excellent for backing up physical hardware, it needs more features for backing up VM images because many environments use hypervisor."
"VM backups needs to be improved. They need to make it similar to the way Veeam and Commvault are doing the virtual backups."
"I'm uncertain if it supports virtual machine backup and restoration. If they could enhance this aspect, they could gain more support from end users."
"If you compare the solution with the same specific features and enhancements on another solution, Data Protector is expensive. This is especially true when compared to, for example, Veeam."
"It has a lot of undeveloped functions like window searching and patent searching, and within the main backup processes like VMware and Microsoft Exchange. It's completely not user-friendly, and it has no built-in antivirus software. In my opinion, Micro Focus Data Protector is not an enterprise level solution."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 100 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud, whereas OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, Symantec Data Loss Prevention and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell NetWorker vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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