We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect 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."The most valuable feature is its ability to back up and recover our production environment from ransomware."
"The interface is easy to use. They keep on adding new features. Acronis recently added multi-platform support."
"The solution is exceptional for desktop backup."
"It's always stable. It's very good, useful, and user-friendly."
"I have everything I need in the backup or in the partition. "
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Our customers can backup to local storage and they can back up or replicate to the cloud."
"In my opinion, it's the best product for end-users and PCs."
"What we find most valuable in Micro Focus Data Protector is that it provides Japanese data protection, for example, it protects information such as the full Japanese name, address, etc."
"It's user-friendly and not overly complicated to configure."
"I haven't experienced any crashes while using the solution...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It's a good product that's pretty easy to use."
"The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler."
"Deduplication implementation with CAPA is very good."
"Data Protector's granular recovery features make it easy for us to create and restore backups in an understandable and user-friendly manner. With granular recovery, any database or even just a database table can be restored at will."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"In the span of six months, maintenance is done at least twice and you are told that it is coming up, with apologies for the inconvenience. It's a distraction, and it interferes with the backup schedule."
"This might be a lack of understanding on my part, but it's difficult to purge old backups."
"I would like to have more cybersecurity integration to properly round up the product and its offering. In terms of cybersecurity, if the offerings can be more versatile so that it is not just a backup solution, it would be great. Some addition to cybersecurity would really be helpful so that it becomes a kind of a suite of products. Backup and recovery form a part of the broader security strategy. Its integration with other cybersecurity solutions would provide proper visibility to not just your cybersecurity dashboard but also to all of your backups. You would have a pretty good view of the entire security landscape that you are managing."
"Acronis Backup has a straightforward initial setup process and an easy-to-use interface. However, a potential issue for Acronis partners is that registered partners do not have access to marketing materials, which can make it difficult for them to reach mass markets and sell the product. This could be improved by allowing registered partners to access marketing materials and tools, such as email templates, that would help them to promote Acronis Backup effectively."
"It would be nice to have a partition that I can boot and reinstall when taking a backup image from the operating system."
"The problems that we face are often related to the customer's network, although sometimes there are problems with the software, such as an error in the configuration."
"The backing up of virtual machines in VMware and Nutanix needs better integration and the performance of the solution needs improvement."
"The technical support of Acronis Backup could improve. They have the depth of knowledge but the speed of the response could be quicker."
"In terms of what can be improved, I would say integrations with MongoDB. We use MongoDB and we need to go to scripts to do backups. We need more integrations."
"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."
"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."
"It's very expensive compared to Veeam and other similar solutions."
"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."
"This solution is not scalable."
"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."
"The downside of the flexibility on offer is if you over-configure it, it may fail to function as some configurations may not match."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 99 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and N-able Cove Data Protection, whereas OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Symantec Data Loss Prevention. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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