OpenText Data Protector Primary Use Case

MP
Individual Contributor at Unemployed customer

For various customers, Micro Focus Data Protector was used for backup and restore.

As a technology consultant, I used to deliver projects, and we used to have some concerns about the previous version versus the latest version. Based on that, we had our release going through on these products, which we overcame, and we even succeeded in getting upgraded from the older versions to the latest versions.

Customers wanted to upgrade from the previous version to the latest version, either on a Windows platform or on a Linux platform as well. They used to have multi-vendor storage boxes as well, and they wanted to know if it was compatible with this new version. 

They occasionally had an older version or older storage boxes that were incompatible. Based on that, we simply had the most recent support methods and shared them.

They were attempting to access the new storage, and we tried to find where they were stuck to support those issues.

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Jeroen Vranckaerts - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer - Server & Storage, DBA at Audi Brussels

I use OpenText Data Protector as a backup tool.

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NN
Assistant Manager - Data Center at Bank of Zambia

Primarily, we've been using it for backups. We've focused on backing up volume groups and files on both Linux and Windows machines. While I'm not certain if it supports VM backups, that's where our main focus has been.

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Marc Schreurs - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & Owner at SAN Gateway

We use Data Protector for backup and recovery.

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A. AhadAlam - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Systems Group at NCCPL

Due to some management issues, we're moving to Data Domain.

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AH
Project Manager and Technical Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We use the solution mainly for backup and recovery of all our infrastructures. Also, we are using Veeam for this purpose.

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SJ
Enterprise Engineer at Computech Limited

The primary reason clients purchase this solution is for backup.

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Sarvesh Rane - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at Unified Data-Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd

Typically, our clients utilize OpenText Data Protector for Oracle firewall backup NDMPs and, more recently, for HANA. I have undergone training where OpenText explicitly stated their support for SAP HANA. Thus, we have a client base for whom we provide data protection using the Data Protector tool.

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BL
System Engineer at Tarch

I provide Data Protector as a solution to my customers, but I have fewer clients using the product these days. 

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Mangesh Masaye - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at UPL

I am a manager at a mid-size non-profit and we use this to backup HPE UNIX servers.

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

We primarily use data protection in complex environments with large Oracle databases, Hyper-V, and VMWare hypervisors with replication of backup sets to DR site. 

It's used for data protection of large Oracle Databases, backups of small branch offices, zero-downtime backup of mission-critical databases with HPE storage (XP or 3PAR), data protection of most common NAS appliances through NDMP protocol, and the backup of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Sharepoint, and the Microsoft SQL Server. 

It provides a consolidation of backups to the tape library and to the cloud provider. 

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AM
Storage / Backup Administrator at Saudi Basic Industries Corporation

The primary use case is integration with the HP storage unit. There is an HP product line called HP High-End Storage. We are primarily using Micro Focus Data Protector for SAP RT application, which is an earlier version. 

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GK
Head of IT-Infrastructure at a construction company with 11-50 employees

We have two different systems. We use Microsoft Azure Backup for VM machines and Micro Focus for our file server, database, and cloud backups, like Exchange Online and so forth.  

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AK
Assistant General Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use the solution for backup data protection of on-premises, in-cloud, and virtual environments. Also, we use it for the features such as production tab and recall tool.

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NH
Director at Random Group Ltd

We don't use Micro Focus widely. It's used as a backup-to-tape system. Overall, we have about five users because a couple of our clients use it as well.  

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

We primarily use the solution for our server backup and some Linux system backups as well as a backup for our SQL.

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SB
Project Team Lead at Microlink.in

We use Micro Focus Data Protector for taking backups throughout our entire data center, which includes backups for our SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL databases, as well as for the Windows virtual instances which also require file-level, user data, and database backups.

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RagidKader - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Solutions Architect at New York University

file backup and VM backup 

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XT
Backup Administrator Individual Contributor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We use Micro Focus Data Protector to back up all our infra servers, plus file share and some VM backup.

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AD
Datacenter Engineer at Al Ittefaq Steel Products Company

 We primarily use the solution for data backups.

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OmobolajiOlaloku - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise System Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We run all of the bank applications on it. 

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OZ
Infrastructure Section Head at Citystars Properties

We are using the on-prem version of this solution. We use the software for both the Microsoft application backup and Oracle backup.

We are planning to switch to Veeam in the next six months.

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

The primary use case is mainly for data protection for both short-term and long-term retention. We are resellers of Micro Focus and I am a storage and backup engineer.

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

Our primary use case is backing up our data and restoring it when required.

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SR
Sr. Manager - IT Systems at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

We primarily use the solution as a backup. It basically backs up all of my premium items.

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JM
Founder at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

We can back up Oracle databases, SQL databases, Windows machines, Linux, and virtual machines like VMware with this product.

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PR
Operations Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 1-10 employees

The solution is used in protection across a heterogeneous computing environment.

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Yilak Yigezu - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at united system integrators

Micro Focus Data Protector is used for data backups.

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TP
Technical Manager at ONE Corp.

I use the Micro Focus Data Protector for our corporate data backup requirements. That is the main business need for this product by our company.

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AA
Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Our primary use case is to back up databases, file systems, servers and information in the database.

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AW
Senior IT Manager with 501-1,000 employees

We are using this solution to back up our data from SAP HANA and Microsoft applications. We also use it to back up our domain and file servers.

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