OpenText Data Protector Reviews

The key concepts with OpenText Data Protector include centralized storage management and integration with cloud environments. It supports big data backups and automation, and allows for asynchronous backups. Additionally, Data Protector offers a web console for remote access, so you don't need to rely on a specific operating system. The software can be installed on a Windows machine or operated via command line on Linux systems.

In one of the projects involving a database and UCMDB integration, we needed to manage a large database. We used the scheduling feature in Data Protector to automate backups. This involved setting up backup sequences, which could include full backups, incremental backups, or a combination of both, depending on the requirements.

I use OpenText Data Protector as a backup tool.

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it provides users with a simple backup option. The advanced stuff, like the ones offered by Oracle and Microsoft, is just not as refined as OpenText VIM. OpenText Data Protector is quite good for simple file backups and has good compression features.

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.

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.

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

The solution is easy to use. The management of the product is also easy.

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.

The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler. We just had to onboard where we only had a few basic terms.

Most features we worked on were on a web console, but they still lack almost all of the features.

The other route was where they just wanted to learn more about cloud storage and where they wanted to go to applications, auto applications from local storage to cloud, but we couldn't give them the solutions because we didn't have certain enough features, facilities, in our lab environment where we could just work out our good R&D, and so on. But we failed in that situation because we were not given these solutions. That is something we could have done.

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.

Every feature is important in data protection. Every feature plays a vital role. There's nothing particularly about it. 

It is easy to understand and implement. It is also easy to upgrade. These are the main challenges that we face, but OpenText Data Protector makes it quite simple.

What we find most valuable in Micro Focus Data Protector is that it provides Japanese data protection, for example, it protects information such as the full Japanese name, address, etc.

We have a lot of requests for the Micro Focus team, particularly in terms of the Japanese data pattern, as it's not as good now. The Japanese data pattern accuracy of the Micro Focus Data Protector needs to be improved because there are a lot of false negatives and false positives. We are currently testing this and our product team has been communicating with the Micro Focus team.

What we'd like to see in the next release of the solution is better compatibility with other products, apart from a more accurate Japanese data pattern.