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 web-based interface makes it easy to use."
"The interface is easy to use. They keep on adding new features. Acronis recently added multi-platform support."
"The setup is very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the quick restoration. We can restore the data quickly."
"Acronis Backup is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Acronis Backup is the data recovery and restoration details."
"The pricing is fine."
"Acronis Backup is valuable if your data is affected by ransomware, you are able to get it back."
"Regarding scalability, it's unlimited with Data Protector. You can link multiple installations and let them work together. They can share backup devices. You have many possibilities with Data Protector. It's very proficient."
"The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It's a good product that's pretty easy to use."
"It's supports Unix, Linux, all of the OS's. It's very stable software."
"The feature that was most valuable was that we could restore one mailbox and we could do different backups for different databases."
"The initial setup is straightforward if you understand Data Protector."
"We have issues with the SQL databases which are a little shaky."
"When an error occurs, the information is not always easy to understand and these messages should be made more clear."
"I can't select a network location. I have to map a drive on the server, and then I have to select the mapped drive in order for it to put the backup out there."
"The product needs to have a simple DR process."
"This is not a feature-rich solution."
"The support and documentation must be improved."
"It would be nice to have a partition that I can boot and reinstall when taking a backup image from the operating system."
"It would be nice if it could support more types of storage: EMC, HPE, Veeam, etc."
"This solution is not scalable."
"Micro Focus Data Protector must improve its overall evolution record. They need to focus on hardware based instant recovery, client recovery, and cloud ability. Now there is no cloud ability."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Faster VEAgent Restores"
"I don't like this solution so much because it's very technical and compared to Commvault and Veeam, it's not so user-friendly. The interface needs improvement."
"The technical support was very slow."
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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