OpenText Data Protector Benefits

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Assistant Manager - Data Center at Bank of Zambia

There was an incident that occurred at some point, and our final option was to perform a restoration using a recent backup. In this case, we utilized Micro Focus to restore certain database files, and it proved to be quite beneficial.

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JA
Senior Systems Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It allows us to have confidence in our backups and our ability to restore them.

Data Protector is a very mature product that allows custom backups, scheduling, and copying in a manner that reduces the amount of time spent with backups from an administrative point of view.

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it_user567993 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT & BUSINESS SYSTEMS MANAGER at Meggitt

We don't utilize it the way it's supposed to be used. It's kind of like a back stop. For example, if an engineer accidentally deletes something, he raises a ticket and with a request to get his file back. Normally, the backup routines are run, and that's what we use Data Protector for. We just dive into that, pull it back, and say, there are half a dozen backups, and ask which one he wants. He says, "I want the one before I made the changes." We can't just apply a mindset here, or read his mind. They can drill it down to specifics. We can then drill the tool down to specifics. It does that process, and it does it well.

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OpenText Data Protector
March 2024
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Andrea Trespidi - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage & Backup Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Data Protector works in conjunction with a Catalyst-based deduplication feature and HPE StoreOnce appliances to provide us with the tools to build reliable DR solutions for backups through Catalyst stores replication using ARS between the sites. 

The wide variety of parameters that can be used to perform fine-tuning of integrations helped us to reach stability with the backups of complex environments. 

The push install feature helped us in completing large migrations from other backup software vendors in a short amount of time.

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JW
Virtualization Systems Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees

Using the backup storage snapshot functionality we are able to back up 2T databases and 2T file storage fast.

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EZ
Head of Virtualization and IT Services Area at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The main reason for usage is to protect our information. However, we've searching for new tools for increasing the volume of information and increasing platform protection. Unfortunately, Data Protector is not exactly the tool for that task.

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RagidKader - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Solutions Architect at New York University

Nops, MFDP Solution is outdated in termes of current backup and protection requirements and we are forced to move to another solution 

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it_user456630 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Enterprise Solutions at Applied Computer Soultions

Reduced backup times, and it helped with security mitigation from a data protection standpoint.

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it_user330159 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We now have a common enterprise backup product across all our infrastructure and services. We have also extended this by deploying HP Data Protector VMware level backup capability VEPA, (Virtual Environment Protection Agent) across both Data Centre and Divisional services.

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it_user435672 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The simplicity of the software since when it was deployed makes the training easy for the backup operators (there is a big rotation of employees in this area).

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it_user503607 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
  • Customers have been able to utilize multiple data protection schemes to be implemented with a single point of contact.
  • Utilizing a single point of control has helped to maximize all current data storage technologies (AIT, LTO, DLT, etc.)
  • Allowed for the leveraging of the latest methodologies such as snapshots, dynamic mirrors, hypervisors, deduplication, compression (in-line, hardware and/or software), and encryption (with or without PKI integration).
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it_user568137 - PeerSpot reviewer
Distribution Engineering Specialist at Saudi Electricity Company

The integration of the tool benefits our organization. The support is unified from one company for all data, storage, and backup processes.

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it_user354912 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services

It is really helpful in giving us a great backup and restore environment, and it's especially a great help in doing the granular recovery for VMs, SharePoint, and Exchange servers.

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it_user568086 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Security Manager at Aspen Insurance Group

We have used Data Protector for as long as I have been at the organization. We're a huge HPE house, so all of our technology for backups is HPE. We were hoping to leverage as much of our current HPE technology as possible by keeping all our technology and software within one software house. Over the years, the ratio of capabilities in terms of what we wanted compared to what it was able to give us has changed.

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it_user418371 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator Staff / E4J with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are required to provide an offsite location for our tape rotation, and we use the D2D function regularly. This function allows the backups to run faster and more efficiently.

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it_user330153 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical System Analyst at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are required to send sensitive information offsite, and Data Protector has made it easy to meet this requirement.

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it_user334902 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Basis & Systems Administrator at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We started using this product back in 2000. At that point we mainly used the SAP R/3 Integration along with some filesystems backups. From that point on, the software started getting integrated with Exchange Server, and lately SAP HANA. The Data Protector software is getting along with the growing needs of our company.

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it_user567783 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The centralization of all the backup data is a valuable asset, and the ability to recover data quickly. It doesn't happen very much these days, to be fair. It's not very often we have to recover. We don't use Data Protector for data recovery. It does have that functionality, but because we're a 95% virtualized company, we use VMware replications for DR. But there is DR functionality within it. It needs work. It's not a simple thing to roll out. Of course now, it offers de-duplication which is big. The backup functionality is very, very good.

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Andrea Trespidi - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage & Backup Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Many colleagues complain about poor and complicated implementation of VMWare granular recovery

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AS
Head, IT Network, Security & Data Center at ARABSAT

Our company assets are information and data. The product protects these valuable assets.

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it_user381594 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The best and biggest improvement for us is that we can rely on the backups it provides. It saves us a lot of time which we can use for other things.

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it_user567897 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Rolls Royce

With Data Protector, if we lose data, we can recover it. That’s the biggest benefit.

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it_user548295 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

For backup testing, previously it was taking a long time, because we needed to restore all the machines and systems. Now, testing the backup machines is very fast.

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it_user567564 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The number one benefit of the solution is that our hardware is HP, so it makes sense to keep standardization, as far as backups are concerned and obviously ease of use.
We can rely on it if we have to get into a disaster situation, so it has absolutely improved how my organization functions from that perspective.

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it_user415407 - PeerSpot reviewer
Corporate IT Manager at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In recent years, I would say this product has held us back rather than improving us. However, I would say also that the biggest improvement is its ability to back up the ESXi hosts over the SAN fabric as long as the disks are presented to the backup host.

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it_user405447 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Consultant at NIIT Technologies Limited

I have been using this product for my customer’s infrastructure. It has helped to keep away backup-related concerns and has provided consistent backup for a long time without intervention and with much less administration. The reporting feature keeps you updated about the backup status. 

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it_user384222 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant with 51-200 employees

Data Protector has provided us with somewhat reliable backups for our environment, but it otherwise has not really improved our organization's functions.

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it_user381021 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Technology Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We are able to utilize entry-level staff to operate our complete BURA. The product highly integrates and leverages the strengths with our other HPE products and our business processes.

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it_user567678 - PeerSpot reviewer
Recruitment Manager at Bank of Georgia

It takes less time. You need fewer passwords. You need less of everything else. You have everything in one space; you can control everything: your payments, your business, your email, and so on.

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it_user568185 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Specialist at Atea Sverige AB

The organizations I work with that use the product are actually managing to get a higher availability figure. They can design their infrastructure to manage it in an easier way, so they need to spend less hours of management.

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it_user568194 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Systems and Data Services at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is easy to recover our backup data using Data Protector.

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it_user567825 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Specialist at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The benefit is that we've got data retention and we can store data for people. We are a financial services organization, so we are audited on the level of security of our data. This solution allows us to prove that we are storing it correctly.

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it_user414069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It gives a good overview of which tape library and tape drives are connected, and gives you the ability to restore selected portions of the tape and not necessarily the whole tape. You can even control the tape library using this software.

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it_user384924 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Adminstrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

It's allowed us to reliably perform backups without a whole lot of constant attention required. Again, the integrations with SQL Server, Exchange, and Hyper-V are reliable and effective. The integration with SQL Server 2012 is particularly well-executed.

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it_user342660 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Specialist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

It provides us with more assurances that the backup procedure is actually working.

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it_user611967 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The process to restore a database from one server to another got really easy. It improved the amount of requests the backup administration unit could attend to.

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it_user380181 - PeerSpot reviewer
Backup & Recovery specialist at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

As time goes on, it actually becomes a handicap. It requires too much storage and there are holes where backups should be.

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it_user387966 - PeerSpot reviewer
Researcher at a university with 501-1,000 employees

This is our only backup product and we've used it since the beginning because HP was a partner of our organization.

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it_user381045 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Adminstrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Data Protector allows us to improve our SLA in successful backups and the reporting tools integrated with our management console make possible 99% backup success in our clients.

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it_user10158 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Technical coordinator at a engineering company with 201-500 employees
  • Fantastic SAP backup resilience and reliability
  • Offline and on-line consistent backup possibilities
  • Oracle log treatments for archive log mode databases
  • Affordable restores with preview possibilities
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TP
Technical Manager at ONE Corp.

I don't like any function of the Micro Focus Data Protector. Honestly, I hate the Micro Focus Data Protector. It's not really good.

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it_user385245 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Adminstrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's given us the flexibility to recover individual files, which is important to us because we have a lot of end users who have the tendency to accidentally delete files on the shared drives. We're able to locate which tape the files are on. It's a pretty straightforward process.

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it_user437310 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

Data Protector helps us to maintain data consistency and recover data with minimum downtime. We can recover the user-specific data when there is data loss, such as a mailbox or file server.

Having dual-cell manager in the environment at primary and secondary sites, data restoration and services can be made up in case the primary site goes down completely.

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it_user381510 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT SysAdmin at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Because HP Data Protector connects with the other systems in our company, we're able to better use our time and resources to address other concerns instead of dealing with issues of incompatibility.

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it_user339234 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

It provides us with reliable backups and restores.

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it_user568026 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director and Information Technology Responsible at Liebherr

It provides one solution for all our backup needs.

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it_user366666 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operation Team Manager at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our central system must be powered at all times. Data Protector is always available for powering our central system. It does exactly what we need it to do.

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it_user339216 - PeerSpot reviewer
Administrador dedicado at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • It's use is intuitive
  • Performs quick restores
  • Integrates with multiples applications
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it_user98628 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
HP Data Protector integration with RMAN is very stable, robust and provides good diagnostics features to troubleshoot backup issues. View full review »
it_user330393 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Many of my clients have been able to remove tape drives from remote sites.

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it_user389994 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

It reduced the backup times so that the database admins use the backup door to perform restores. Previously, to perform a database refresh, we'd have to wait hours for the restore to complete. Data Protector has reduced that time down to an hour-and-a-half. That's good.

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it_user321693 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Coordinator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It helps us with ISO 9001 statement norms.

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it_user453399 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

It allows us to be more flexible with how we do our system backups.

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it_user568134 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The benefit is integration with HPE 3PAR storage and with other HPE equipment.

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it_user402048 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems support and operations manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We can do backups and restores easier and quicker than before.

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it_user324942 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network admin/security at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is our enterprise backup solution centralizing all backup needs.

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it_user321039 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Supervisor at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The Restore function helps us find lost files.

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it_user487941 - PeerSpot reviewer
Diretor Tecnico

The flexibility when restoring Oracle/SAP data.

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it_user335142 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Tekniker at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It has helped out our backup services requirement for retentions.

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it_user334893 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We do not use the product within our own organization’s backup solution.

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it_user620592 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The major issue we are facing in this product is Sybase database integration. We had resolved this somehow with the help of HPE by making changes in some Perl file.

However, it was not included in the next patch release. In the next upgrade to Version 9.0, it was not included either.

Every update or upgrade removes the changes in all the program files and the integration is stopped.

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it_user325044 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at a engineering company

I think this product doesn’t improve any processes or functions in our company.

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it_user320148 - PeerSpot reviewer
Backup Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We are able to slowly, but surely, consolidate all the backup infrastructure requirements with one product.

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Rami.chiha - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Systems & Storage Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Reliable Utility that would help a lot to automate backups and recovery operations

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it_user334896 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

I can backup and restore our company’s various systems without issue.

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Buyer's Guide
OpenText Data Protector
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about OpenText Data Protector. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.