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."If you need to recover, it's the best recovery software I've ever used and I've been in this business for over 30 years. Plug a disc in and tell it to recover this machine and it's done. You walk away from it and it's done. Reboot it and it's perfect."
"Acronis has many features, which are really very interesting, when it comes to data backup and recovery, especially disaster recovery (DR)."
"In terms of system-critical support, Acronis' technical support does really well. I would give them an eight out of ten for that."
"The tool’s licensing and pricing are economical for SMB customers."
"In our recent experiences, Acronis Cyber Protect proved most valuable during instances of colleagues facing migration challenges due to ransomware impacts. In these situations, where servers and backups were affected, having a backup stored in external drives or other devices within our data centers posed risks. To address this vulnerability, we decided to shift to a cloud backup solution."
"I like Acronis Cyber Protect's backup process and its management console is intuitive."
"The solution is exceptional for desktop backup."
"The solution has all the features I need and user friendly."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to back up our SQL server."
"The installation was simple and provided an easy way to install even on Unix servers. It has excellent features like deduplication."
"Integration with HP storage is a very strong point for Micro Focus Data Protector. It is the best solution for general operations like backup and restore. Zero downtime backup (ZDB) is one very important feature, which is basically the integration with the storage array. It is a very strong feature. We're using storage with snapshots with this integration."
"The stability of the product seems to be quite good."
"The feature that was most valuable was that we could restore one mailbox and we could do different backups for different databases."
"It's supports Unix, Linux, all of the OS's. It's very stable software."
"Ability to automatically detect and secure new data sources without requiring manual configuration intervention."
"Some of the default settings out-of-the-box should already be set up for the novice user. For instance, the warnings that say a hard drive has bad sectors and stops the backup from performing."
"Their support process can be quite lengthy...This is an area that needs improvement."
"I would like to have more hardware space. It would make it better. I would like to have two more terabytes."
"In some cases, at the time of reinstallation, some disasters happen. For the licensing on the computer the name of the computer and domain, everything is removed from the registry level. Then we have to install the Acronis from the start for it to work properly. Otherwise, the Acronis software will cause a lot of trouble at the time of reinstallation. That's where they need to improve the product. In the case people want to install the same software with the same hardware, it should not stop me."
"I've had some issues with the understandability of the interface. I think if they had someone with expertise in user interfaces to look at this, they could clean up the user interface."
"Improved support for immutability and Utility AirGAP could be beneficial."
"For smaller companies it's a little more challenging to maintain."
"The backing up of virtual machines in VMware and Nutanix needs better integration and the performance of the solution needs improvement."
"Micro Focus are improving Data Protector with every new version and since we began undergoing training with the latest version we have not faced any real challenges yet. However, their support does need to be improved, in my opinion. In certain critical cases that we've had, they did not provide a satisfactory level of support."
"It can occasionally be inaccurate in its backup/recovery time estimates."
"OpenText Data Protector is more difficult to use and configure than OpenText VIM. The user-friendliness of OpenText Data Protector has to be increased, and the complexity of the tool needs to be reduced."
"Microfocus needs to build a partnership with other vendors in addition to HPE as far as cloud consolidation of backups."
"People prefer Veeam because the interface is easier, and Data Protector is difficult in comparison."
"In SAP restoration, we faced issues with changing the SIDs and changing the path for every backup object. It is quite a lengthy process to do that."
"The scheduler setup could be better. We are facing some issues scheduling the job based on our requirements."
"Faster VEAgent Restores"
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 25 reviews while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 14 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes "A single solution protecting all platforms, that is highly secure, and easy to deploy". 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 Rubrik. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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