We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar 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 source site replication feature is valuable."
"I have found the product to be scalable."
"Client deduplication."
"Scheduling is valuable. It does a good job of backing up, and it does a good job of restoring. Nobody has got a problem with that. The agents are well supported."
"The product has a proven track record of good backups without much of a failure ratio. It also has a good backup in terms of the compression ratio."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"It's simple to configure."
"The most valuable feature of Avamar would have to be the way it works over needing very little bandwidth to move data across a WAN or LAN."
"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."
"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."
"It's a good product that's pretty easy to use."
"It is a traditional backup model. If you talk about file server and the official Windows database, it's a stable product."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The installation was simple and provided an easy way to install even on Unix servers. It has excellent features like deduplication."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"When we used the solution, it was still new, and so the customer service/technical support was not the best."
"It's not the best solution for big databases."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"There are limitations when trying to use this solution with Hyper-V."
"Desktop-laptop backups and backup over the WAN needs lot of improvisation. For DTLT there must be a provision to push agents from the management console."
"There also needs to be single sign-on support."
"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."
"The GUI could be updated. The GUI hasn't changed since version 6. It's on version 10 now. The reporting could also be better. Also, while Data Protector is excellent for backing up physical hardware, it needs more features for backing up VM images because many environments use hypervisor."
"VM backups needs to be improved. They need to make it similar to the way Veeam and Commvault are doing the virtual backups."
"The Micro Focus Data Protector support is not as good as Veeam Backup & Replication's support."
"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 new backup systems are using new mechanisms for the recovery phases; for example, VM, recovery and testing the backup before recovering it. These features are not available in Data Protector."
"VMware backup integration and cloud recovery is lacking."
"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."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 100 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Symantec Data Loss Prevention. See our Dell Avamar vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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