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 ability to clone backups."
"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."
"Some of the most valuable features are recovery, protection against malware, and software management. I am happy with the dashboards and user interface."
"The Acronis panel is user friendly and tracking backups across a number of different devices is great. Acronis provides prompts and reminders to users if certain files are not backed up."
"Stability is always good. I have used Acronis for 10 years now, if not more. I have never had a problem with availability, etc."
"All the necessary features required to set up a proper backup are already present in Acronis Backup."
"This is a perfect option for an SMB."
"Ability to automatically detect and secure new data sources without requiring manual configuration intervention."
"The initial setup is straightforward if you understand Data Protector."
"The reliability of HP Data Protector is the most valuable feature for us."
"Deduplication implementation with CAPA is very good."
"Micro Focus Data Protector's most valuable feature is its interaction with the fiber share. It is easy to use, we use it to back up without any problem to VTLs, and can use the Fiber Channel that is still the TCP."
"The most valuable feature of Data Protector is its integration with VMware. A lot of software these days integrates with VMware, and you can run some of these things on virtual machines. You can even have your backup manager running on a virtual machine and use physical managers to move data around. Their VMware integration isn't too bad, but Commvault has that feature, and many other backup products do."
"The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler."
"The normal file system backup is easy to manage, and our success rate is quite high."
"We have issues with the SQL databases which are a little shaky."
"The whole product structure is confusing. You can actually get to do what you want to do. But Acronis seems to have a singular ability to make things difficult."
"This might be a lack of understanding on my part, but it's difficult to purge old backups."
"The solution could improve by providing more database backup features and have better integration with many different types of databases. We cannot implement it in all of our infrastructures."
"The licensing approach becomes intricate when dealing with SharePoint."
"On the cloud side, security could always be better."
"The pricing could be improved."
"It would be nice to have it on the cloud platform without using third-party equipment."
"They should design the solution so that it is much easier for deployment and make the UI easy to use."
"We're not satisfied with the robustness and stability of the software since Micro Focus took it in-house. The GUI is one thing they could improve. It's still a bit archaic. Data Protector needs a more functional, user-friendly GUI."
"The downside of the flexibility on offer is if you over-configure it, it may fail to function as some configurations may not match."
"The solution is not intuitive enough. I think they should work on the user experience and the graphical interface. These can be a lot better."
"I do not think that this solution is relevant in the current IT market. They have not upgraded their features and functionalities which makes it difficult for them to remain competitive."
"In general, you can say that Micro Focus Data Protector is behind in capabilities when compared with other backup solutions, such as Commvault, Symantec, NetBackup, but it is very strong for certain use cases such as array integration. We are using it in production even now. There should be some kind of cloud integration and archiving solutions. I think this is the area they need to focus on."
"The technical support was very slow."
"VM backups needs to be improved. They need to make it similar to the way Veeam and Commvault are doing the virtual backups."
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 IBM Spectrum Protect. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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