We performed a comparison between OpenText Data Protector and Veritas NetBackup 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 solution is easy to use."
"I have used Micro Focus Data Protector for the file backup facilities. My primary use of the software is to backup file data."
"It is a traditional backup model. If you talk about file server and the official Windows database, it's a stable product."
"I like that Micro Focus keeps a separate catalog of our data."
"The command-line interface is user-friendly and well documented in the reference guide."
"The dashboards in Micro Focus Data Protector are very good. They are similar to the dashboards in Veeam Backup & Replication."
"The solution allows us to be able to backup and exchange directly, to backup Microsoft exchange."
"It's a good product that's pretty easy to use."
"The VM portal and the CloudCatalyst are two of the solution's most valuable features."
"The solution offers a lot of really great features that organizations can utilize and take advantage of."
"It is very easy to back up and recover files compared to other products."
"This product is flexible enough to allow for backing up data from physical machines, as well as from your cloud environment."
"The troubleshooting is very good."
"Great deduplication feature."
"I have found it to be the simplest solution to the market. It gives us a complete end to end solution. We are using this solution, Veritas Appliance and another one for access archiving. It is convenient to have all the support from one vendor."
"Unauthorized people cannot log in and execute commands."
"Virtualization."
"People prefer Veeam because the interface is easier, and Data Protector is difficult in comparison."
"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."
"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."
"The Micro Focus Data Protector support is not as good as Veeam Backup & Replication's support."
"This solution is not scalable."
"VM backups needs to be improved. They need to make it similar to the way Veeam and Commvault are doing the virtual backups."
"We face challenges with its stability."
"DDBoost."
"We would like the Java console to be updated."
"The pricing is a bit of a concern. If could be lower."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"NetBackup's reporting features are a little poor."
"The interface should be improved."
"The ability to use different disk appliance brands as Pure Disk (not OST), such as EMC Data Domain ."
"The reporting of the backups could be better."
OpenText Data Protector is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 99 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, HPE StoreOnce, Symantec Data Loss Prevention and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Veritas Backup Exec. See our OpenText Data Protector vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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