We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum 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."Incremental backup is highly valuable as it allows for significant time and cost savings."
"It is a very stable product. The cost is similar to that of other enterprise solutions."
"Some of the people in our group, like our DBAs and non-technical people, can restore some stuff themselves via Spectrum Protect. That is how simple it is."
"You can do restores very quickly. You can mount a drive and restore it right from the drive."
"by backing up only the changed data, we average around 75TB per night. If we had to do full backups, even occasionally, we would not be able to complete the backup within 12 hours, or we would have to make a large investment to fit a full backup within the 12 hour window."
"From a tech perspective, utilizing deduplication is one of the most valuable features."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that IBM Spectrum Protect is highly integrated with IBM ESS. In addition, it allows us to back up our virtual servers directly to take VM snapshots. It runs on Linux as well."
"IBM Spectrum Protect offers stable software and products."
"Backup of SAP/Oracle -- they are more robust than the competition."
"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."
"The normal file system backup is easy to manage, and our success rate is quite high."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"I like that it supports HPE UNIX servers since many backup solutions do not - this is the main reason why we chose this solution."
"It is a traditional backup model. If you talk about file server and the official Windows database, it's a stable product."
"I haven't experienced any crashes while using the solution...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Ease of use. That has got to be the one thing that I routinely hear from clients and customers, that it's a little bit more difficult than it should be. What I'm finding is that IBM has heard that and they're responding with updated interfaces and things like that."
"We would like to see capabilities of long-term archiving and more support for hardware platforms."
"I would like to see the operations center be a lot more functional. It was nowhere near as functional as the admin center, and I'm doing a lot of command line with it."
"It needs agents that take into account more databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)."
"It needs some software upgrades to fix some of its current bugs."
"Sometimes we experience trouble with the backup transfer of the control files."
"The solution must protect against ransomware attacks better."
"It does not do too well in our virtual environment."
"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."
"The graphical interface needs to be improved."
"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 Micro Focus Data Protector support is not as good as Veeam Backup & Replication's support."
"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."
"Other tools seem to be easier to use."
"The product can be developed by including functionalities like DR, CDP, and SureBackup, which are currently unavailable in the solution."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 99 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Symantec Data Loss Prevention. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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