# OpenText Data Protector Reviews **Vendor:** OpenText **Category:** [Disaster Recovery Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/disaster-recovery) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About OpenText Data Protector Data Protector is your fully integrated enterprise grade backup and disaster recovery solution for large, complex, and heterogeneous IT environments. Built on an adaptive architecture that combines security and analytics, it enables customers to meet their continuity needs reliably and cost-effectively. Available in two editions for virtual environments only or for full heterogeneous enterprise environments. Data Protector is the complete backup solution providing data protection for traditional storage infrastructure through to hybrid cloud environments, for the data center and remote locations. Advanced security features, including Common Criteria Certification, further enhance the protection of critical data and applications including cyber threats such as ransomware attacks. The integrated reporting allows full visibility to backup operations, providing confidence your data is backed up, meets compliance requirements, and enables resource and operational optimization for overall cost saving benefits. ## OpenText Data Protector Reviews ### 1. Microfocus Data protector the best frendly backup tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marco Antonio P. | Arquitecto de soluciones de TI Data center Senior, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** micro focus Data protector is a more easy and friendly to management backup and recovery tools, have a great interface, compatibility and integration with the most common system operations, applications and databases engines too, provide a great integration to backup and recovery vmware enviroments offer granulary recovery **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** When HPE was a owner to data protector pass a lot time without developer more functions, missing deduplication and compressing functions, but now with micro focus Data Protector come back to challenger **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** micro focus Data protector help us to can backup a enterprise enviroments integrate with MSSQL, ORACLE Databases and vmware enviroments, add linux, solaris and windows backups ### 2. Micro Focus Data Protector review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2017 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** Relatively easy to configure backups, multiple integration component options (Oracle, SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, etc). **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** Licensing is pretty complex for this app. RMAN restores can be a pain (but later versions of DP have fixed quite a bit of that as an issue). **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** Standard (Disaster recovery, Database migration, Legal storage requirement backups (SOX), Dev/ITG database backup/restores for testing before going to Prod). ### 3. Overall good product. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** When it's installed, the most valuable feature is ease of use. It's a bit tricky to install straight out of the box and set up, because of the way the licensing module works. Otherwise t's very easy to use. **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** It is a bit slow when you use it for long periods of time. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Data Protector:** Set it up carefully **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do not use it the way it's supposed. 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 more complicated. ### 4. simple and usefull **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legislative Office | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** Very simple to install and operate; we review the satus (mantenience) of the hadwareonce every 2 years aprox. **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** It takes a lot of time to backup virtual machine. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Data Protector:** If you use virtual machine make some test with servers in productions, it could take more time than you spect. **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** Backups and prevent data loss for human mistake, we have recovered few times. ### 5. MicroFocus Data Protector REVIEW **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mehdi T. | Senior ETL Developer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** Great performance, stable product, flexibility with licensing, easy to configure backups and wide integration options such as oracle, sql, sharepoint, etc. **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** Restore of RMAN can be difficult. also, the multiple stream backups is not as smooth as single stream backups. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Data Protector:** It is a very good product ofcourse depending on the company's requirements. It is definitely worth inviting them for a demo and have all your questions answered which would help you evaluate if it is a good fit for your company. This product can fit most of the environments though. **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** Local storage requirements, database testing in the development environment. The backups run fast and performance wise the managementis very happy with it. ### 6. Micro Focus Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** I liked the instant recovery and emphasis on data protection. My company handles sensitive data and we need ways to make sure everything from our end is protected. **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** There was not much I disliked about the product. I thought it was very useful and I'd recommend to another company for sure. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Data Protector:** I would definitely recommend this product. In my trial I found it very useful and can see its potential **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data protection. I am looking for a secure hassle free way to ensure our data is protected. ### 7. Protecting me from a huge loss **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sikandar G. | Digital Marketing Specialist, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** It's ability to work other Operating systems besides Microsoft Windows. **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** It get slow sometimes on Linux, not always. **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** While I was searching for a software to protect my data which was very important on Linux, I couldn't find a software better than Data protector. ### 8. Perfect time rendition **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** It's a perfect software to manage backups and restore security backups **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** I don't like the UX interface installed in the system, but it's pretty funcional **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** Backup restoring ### 9. Centralized Data Storage solution. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose Adan O. | DevOps Ambassador, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** I think what makes Data Protector a winner solution is its core and arquitecture. Data Protector can cover a lot of backup requeriments through its "Cell" arquitecture. **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** I don´t like Notebook backup solution, i think Data Protector is server oriented. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Data Protector:** Best integration for online backup and restore for Databases. **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can cover data retention and fast recovery for any kind of enterprise applications ### 10. Overall a great product **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon C. | Owner, Computer & Network Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** No bugs, excellent customer support, overall a great product **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** Hold times for customer support other than that nothing **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** Protecting data ### 11. Reliable and trustworthy back-end backup soltion **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kunal G. | Senior Manager, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2017 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** Integrations is easy Easy to install and set up cell manager, deploy clients and configure backup devices Licensing is easy **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** Granular Recovery Extensions for VMware and Exchange and reports **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are not using HPE Data protector as enterprise wide backup, it is installed on one of our plant to backup our legacy operating systems, Oracle and MSSQL databases. ### 12. Does the job right the first time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2018 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** I love how easy it is to use and I never had to get help with it or ask any questions. It is very user friendly **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** I have yet to find something I dont like **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to secure some features on a software we are developing ### 13. HP data protector **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** HP data protector has many integration components for all sorts of systems, SQL , exchange, Sharepoint, etc.. **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** all the different components needed to make it work with various system can sometimes be confusion and often one component or another will not work properly and due to this you have to TRY many different paths to get the proper support person who knows the component you are dealing with. many time I had to rely on GOOGLE search to find the solution because HP support took too long to get to the right person. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Data Protector:** make sure you include everything you will need and all components in your quote-- we found we needed several additional and COSTLY licenses in addition to what we were originally told **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** it does provide a backup solution for multiple systems over large WAN environment ### 14. we are using solution for more than 10 years **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2017 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** easy to use GUI, flexible licencing, enhanced feature for backup, solid price, stable product **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** sometimes not so good support, troubleshooting is quite hard **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Data Protector:** make a good test with demo licences to verify if it fulfill all backup demands. **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** we assure proper backups for all group of companies- Yearly we made about 50 restores of data - so far are restores were succesfull. ### 15. Storage Engineer with 6 years experience using Data Protector as the sole backup software. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel H. | Senior Storage Architect, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** Data Protector is very easy to use and once you get the hang of it it becomes second nature. It works really well with standard OS backups. **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** We have had difficulties with various database backups. We had problems with writing multiple stream backups to D2D, than copy that backup to tape for DR. At the DR site we were not able to restore any of the multi stream backups and our DR test failed because of it. To get around this issue we had to switch to single stream backups and backups were taking upwards to 18 hours to complete (not good). **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Data Protector:** It's a good product and when used with HP StoreOnce you'll see significant benefits with its speed and ease of use. **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our shop has been using DP for over 15 years. It's what we know and hard to get rid of something you're so used to. We are using DP for all of our standard OS backups and write all backups to HP's StoreOnce deduplication device. These backups run very fast and we have great success with this method. We also do object copy jobs across the country to fulfill our offsite and DR requirements. ### 16. DP Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** Backup and Restore very realiable and easy to use **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** I have anything to say for dislike, and there is nothing to say **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Data Protector:** I highly recommend the HP DP **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have the problem in out file server, we end up reinstallin Storage lucly i have DP backup to restore all the user files ### 17. Clunky **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText Data Protector?** Easy to use interface and not much complicated. **What do you dislike about OpenText Data Protector?** Clunky and outdated, crashing and terrible support. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Data Protector:** Data Protector software isnt too bad after all, however you need to remember the traingle, GOOD-CHEAP-FAST. If something is cheap is probably not very good and not to fast :) **What problems is OpenText Data Protector solving and how is that benefiting you?** Backup/Restore Solution. - [View OpenText Data Protector pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/opentext-data-protector/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-04+06%3A52%3A56+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7efed349-9e4c-4666-9822-c8aea8639e6f&secure%5Btoken%5D=8742c2e42962f87a1cdef858b542bd0fce0ee6f50b8d57903e4b3218635ec821&format=llm_user) ## OpenText Data Protector Features **Compatibility ** - File Server Backup - Database Server Backup - Virtual Machines - Repository Models **Functionality** - On Premises Recovery - Cloud Recovery - Prior State Recovery - Recovery Automation - Replication **Management** - Disaster Recovery - Storage Formats - On-Demand Restoration **Management** - Continuous Backup - Disaster Recovery - Storage Capacity - Remote Backup - Activity Monitoring **Management** - Local Management - Infrastructure Compatibility - Solution Integration - Real-Time Analytics - RTO and RPO Management **Reporting** - Activity Monitoring - Documentation - Alerts/Notifications **Compliance** - Security Standards - Cloud Data Protection - Data Deduplication **Agentic AI - Disaster Recovery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Security** - Data Encryption - Security and Compliance **Agentic AI - Server Backup** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top OpenText Data Protector Alternatives - [Veeam Data Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/veeam-data-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (676 reviews) - [Cove Data Protection](https://www.g2.com/products/cove-data-protection/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (420 reviews) - [Unitrends Backup and Recovery](https://www.g2.com/products/unitrends-backup-and-recovery/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (438 reviews)