We performed a comparison between OpenText Data Protector and Zerto 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."I like that Micro Focus keeps a separate catalog of our data."
"The feature that was most valuable was that we could restore one mailbox and we could do different backups for different databases."
"It is a traditional backup model. If you talk about file server and the official Windows database, it's a stable product."
"It's supports Unix, Linux, all of the OS's. It's very stable software."
"Data Protector is quite simple and easy to deploy. The deployment is always the same. It's on a server, and the agents are deployed to the machines in a straightforward way. We have two engineers who deploy and manage all our backup solutions."
"Ability to automatically detect and secure new data sources without requiring manual configuration intervention."
"This solution is quite stable because we have only three users."
"The file system backup (by far, the most used) is the most valuable feature."
"I found the very easy VPG setup, the easy recovery, and failover testing to be the most valuable features."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is allowing a failover from our remote sites to our data center. Our remote sites have failed several times, and on each occasion, we were able to bring a plant back online within 30 minutes, even though the hardware repair took many days."
"The migration and ease of use are valuable. It is easy to set up and easy to flip. We just need to click on Move."
"The most important feature is that the recovery point (RPO) is less than one minute. The is really good for our customers, as they can keep their data loss to a minimum."
"Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feature is great."
"We have seen ROI. It reduced the time for failover and failback by 90%."
"Zerto is intuitive. We could set everything up in the environment within a day and a half and start migrating on the third day."
"Zerto enables us to do sandboxing failovers. You can run tests on a production environment in a sandbox and spin up a copy of your actual production environment in a few hours. When you're done with it, you can click a couple of buttons, and it's all blown away. You don't need to worry about reverting changes or interfering with your on-prem production environments."
"We face challenges with its stability."
"The interface has been the same for many years and needs to be updated"
"It has a lot of undeveloped functions like window searching and patent searching, and within the main backup processes like VMware and Microsoft Exchange. It's completely not user-friendly, and it has no built-in antivirus software. In my opinion, Micro Focus Data Protector is not an enterprise level solution."
"If you compare the solution with the same specific features and enhancements on another solution, Data Protector is expensive. This is especially true when compared to, for example, Veeam."
"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."
"We have so many specific technological cracks in Micro Focus, but we are not getting the features, facilities, or coordination between the global delivery centers and the R&D team that we need to express our ideas."
"The graphical interface needs to be improved."
"VMware backup integration and cloud recovery is lacking."
"Zerto could add text alerts if there are critical problems and alerts if changes affect our replication."
"This solution could be improved by including some sort of compression or de-duplication for the same type of files."
"I would like to be able to replicate one to multiple without having to recreate every VPG. That would save us a lot of time. When we add a site or move our DR to a different site, I have to recreate everything from scratch. So, it'd be cool to be able to just repoint an existing VPG to a new site without having to recreate everything."
"There should be more comprehensive cyber recovery capabilities."
"The technical support is hit or miss."
"We encountered some issues during Active Directory recovery."
"We're not fully satisfied with the support team."
"I would like Zerto to provide more detailed information when there is an issue."
OpenText Data Protector is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 99 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery with 235 reviews. OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6, while Zerto is rated 9.0. 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 Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Rubrik, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. See our OpenText Data Protector vs. Zerto report.
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