Micro Focus Data Protector is a stable solution.

This product is extremely good. When compared to other storage or backup tools on the market, it is extremely competitive. Most of them are preferable because they are user-friendly, have multi-vendor support, and also support cloud platforms. And we're going through the cloud as well as local storage. We have many specific visibilities, but we couldn't get the chance to explore everything in detail.

I haven't experienced any crashes while using the solution. The tool is stable, but it's a pain to configure. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

It is quite stable and I would rate it a nine out of 10.

Data Protector isn't stable.

We had no stability issues since version 9.05 came out. There were some issues with versions 9.0 to 9.02 that caused a month’s long engagement with HPE support to get a patch to fix it.

The tool is stable. I rate the stability an eight out of ten.

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

To be honest, I don't think Backup Exec comes anywhere close to this tool in terms of stability. When you match it, and you use Backup Exec and Veeam together, you can get kind of close to this tool. However, you still don't get the granularity of the data. This solution is awesome. It is leaps ahead of Backup Exec, leaps ahead.

Micro Focus Data Protector, in terms of stability, is not so bad.

It is not a stable product because I found that it's only dedicated to HP products. 

The stability is poor, especially the application which we run on Windows. It is not that stable, so we do some issues with the application. 

I would rate the stability a four out of ten. 

Data Protector is stable.

It is a stable solution, we have not experienced any bugs over the past fifteen or so years.

The solution, especially if it's implemented in the Linux platform, is very stable.

We're relying on this backup for our very critical core application. It's really good all the time for backup and restore operations. We never faced any issue. You can say it is a very smooth and stable experience.

Data Protector is highly stable.

Since we started using v5, stability has improved quite a bit.

I rate the solution's stability as a four. We face challenges with it, and the support team has not been able to fix them.

Data Protector is stable.

The stability depends on the environment because there can be some special cases where Micro Focus Data Protector is not stable at all.

The stability of the solution is quite good. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze at all. It's reliable.

It is both stable and easy to maintain.

It is a traditional backup model. If you talk about file server and the official Windows database, it's a stable product.

But in the VM, nobody is looking for backup for the sake of backup, you are looking at backup for the sake of recovery. It's not frequent, but it happens, so any backup solution should not be focused just on what to backup but focused on how fast they can recover the data. That is the idea of Rubrik. The other competitors don't focus on backup, they focus on recovery. They talk about the instant recovery in backup, the RPO and RTO. When you talk about relation, the focus is towards stability and client complaints. And they still don't have their own dedicated hardware for the backup.

We didn't have too many problems. It was fairly stable.

We did experience a major issue when we first deployed Data Protector 8.10, but HP support were able to help.

It's a stable solution, but every upgrade is such a headache. For example, we currently have to upgrade to a new version, but somehow the connection to storage isn't happening because there are issues with the library.

We encountered some stability issues. Before 2014, the system run over HPE-UX platform when some software issues were recurrent. After it moved to the x86 platform, these were reduced a lot (almost to zero).

There have been some stability issues. As with any product remaining on the cutting edge of security and protection trends, utilizing the newest features comes with its share of caution by the user.

HPE Data Protector product support is always on the lookout for customer issues and provides patches and hot fixes immediately if presented with an undiscovered flaw.

It does have some issues better left behind. I am specifically thinking of Data Protector, Version 8, which went ‘off the rails’ fairly quickly and is best avoided.

Upgrading from Version 7 directly to version 9 is supported and strongly recommended.

The tool and its functionalities are stable. You can find more features with other products, but they will be adding more features in the new version.

I would give the stability a rating of seven out of ten. There are still some improvements to be made in terms of ensuring stability in the product.

We've had no issues with its stability.

If I base my evaluation on the conversation I had recently with my SME for backups, the software is not very stable. Maybe that's because it is integrated with the hardware layer. I would say that it runs, but there are always a lot of errors. The software's stable, but the actual components are not stable for doing what we want.

There have been no issues with the stability.

No problems after I upgraded to v7. On version 6.10, it would not bar-scan a pool correctly. After upgrading, I no longer had the issue.

The solution is very stable but we had some problems with our VTL although, this is a hardware problem.

Mainly, I can’t say that I have encountered major stability issues. At some point in time, patches fixed some minor issues.

It's very stable. It wasn't in its earlier guises. But now it is.

Stability depends on the platform. It's quite stable on a Linux platform but I've had bad experience in the past with Windows. I don't know if there is more stability with the new releases, but we abandoned the Windows platform for the core services of Data Protector. We're using Linux.

It is stable to a point, but it has room for improvement. I would not call it a very stable solution.

No, we haven't had any stability issues over the years.

It has really improved over time. In the beginning, it was not a real enterprise solution but it has evolved into an enterprise solution.

I think it's working better and better. There was an improvement in the new version this past year. I think that it's very stable now. Under normal circumstances, we don't have any downtime.

The stability is great. For the most part, there are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. However, when it comes to new versions, there are certain issues that crop up. They may be due to new developments.

It's stable, but there are times when you need to open a ticket with vendor support. It is stable but when you are using any system, you need to open tickets from time to time.

It is extremely stable.

The database is vastly improved and it's much more stable. Rarely does it get corrupted like in the older versions.

There have been no issues with the stability.

Since we implemented the new PostgreSQL database, Data Protector's stability has greatly improved.

The product has struggled with some of its more complicated integrations (SQL Server and VMware) from time to time.

It is stable. It is always up.

The stability is excellent, actually. It more or less depends on how often they release new versions, but the stability is extremely good.

The product is stable. We have had some issues here and there, but we have good people in support who can help us.

The problem with HPE Data Protector is when it goes wrong, it's very hard to fathom why it went wrong.

See the above Areas for Improvement.

We have become frequent customers of the Data Protector technical support team because Data Protector does fairly regularly break. And it does so, generally, without any involvement on our part. The software is not as stable and reliable as it should be.

Invariably, the response from technical support to that is to install the latest set of patches for Data Protector. It's very frequently patched. Upgrading to the next patch release is quite a big task because you also have to upgrade all of the components running on all of the backup targets at the same time.

No issues encountered.

In my experience, I found the solution to be stable.

The server is stable. The issues are regarding what was saved. Sometimes you have to read the tape to get what was saved.

Micro Focus Data Protector is highly stable.

The integration with MaxDB and MS SQL gave us problems as it is never working the way we expect. As they are certified, we expected it to work flawlessly, but it didn't.

Data Protector is absolutely stable for us. We have no issues with instability.

Stability isn't perfect. You have issues from time to time. 

I'm working on multiple cases, so I'm able to see what is not working with the software. Micro Focus, however, continues to refine the product, which is one of the strengths of the solution. They have new versions every month to fix problems. We advise clients from time to time to upgrade to improve stability. 

With new installations, incidents can occur sometimes. If you have an incident that affects the backup server, it can impact the software and create a bug. There are people from Micro Focus - high-level people - that can help and take control of the solution remotely to troubleshoot issues.

The StoreOnce software has a few problems with housekeeping jobs, requiring us to contact support.

No. Recently I accidentally destroyed my backup server and the HP technicians restored my backup server in the entirety in a few hours using Data Protector's own backup. We often use Data Protector for disaster recovery tests, and the results were always successful.

This solution is quite stable because we have only three users. I am not sure if we will increase our usage soon.

Micro Focus Data Protector is stable. I have one customer using it. The data center utilizes it. 

It's been pretty stable. I haven't had any instances of crashes.

Its performance and stability are okay.

In terms of maintenance, we only need to do updates when we receive information. Not more than.

There isn't much instability as the product has been stable with the exception of a few bugs during upgrades.

Yes, we've had issues with stability. Specifically, the database that uses this version of of Data Protector is unstable.

No issues encountered.

The stability is very good.

It's quite stable.

In v7, some W2012 clients fail occasionally.

We haven't had any issues with respect to stability.

The deduplication stores on Windows are a bit flakey.

We can have everything up at night so that the database admins can kick off backup jobs automatically, whereas previously the jobs were stuck in the process. The database is backed up every 15 minutes and there are roughly 1,600 backup jobs per day that go through the system. It's quite reliable, more so than other solutions we've used.

No issues encountered.

In the current version, it is very stable. We are currently a couple of versions behind. At this stage, it's very stable.

It is very stable; no problem with that.

Sometimes a few of Data Protector's services do not start automatically even if they are set to do so.

It’s as scalable as my pocket is – limited to my budget.

No issues encountered.

Delay when using a big Internal database.

No issues encountered.

The Data Protector software service shuts down randomly sometimes.

Data Protector is pretty stable, but when it does fail, we can quickly reset the internal database.

We have not had stability issues.

No issues encountered.

There ave been some issues.

-a lot of Internal Data Base corruptions (sometimes it becomes serious)

The user have to Backup the IDB daily and do the daily maintenance

No issues encountered.