We performed a comparison between Barracuda Backup and OpenText Data Protector based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The solution’s scalability is good because its space is unlimited. We can start in Office365 with one terabyte bit of information and leverage through an enterprise solution of 1000 users."
"The normal file system backup is easy to manage, and our success rate is quite high."
"Data Protector is very good at automation. From the time of the backup, verification, and copy to tape, it is very good. I don't need to touch it, it will do it by itself."
"I have used Micro Focus Data Protector for the file backup facilities. My primary use of the software is to backup file data."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...The initial setup process for the solution is easy."
"Performs the backup properly and protects our data."
"The installation was simple and provided an easy way to install even on Unix servers. It has excellent features like deduplication."
"It's a good product that's pretty easy to use."
"Data Protector's granular recovery features make it easy for us to create and restore backups in an understandable and user-friendly manner. With granular recovery, any database or even just a database table can be restored at will."
"An improvement is required in reports and backups for sharing on Linux and Unix."
"The scheduler setup could be better. We are facing some issues scheduling the job based on our requirements."
"It has a lot of undeveloped functions like window searching and patent searching, and within the main backup processes like VMware and Microsoft Exchange. It's completely not user-friendly, and it has no built-in antivirus software. In my opinion, Micro Focus Data Protector is not an enterprise level solution."
"The downside of the flexibility on offer is if you over-configure it, it may fail to function as some configurations may not match."
"Other tools seem to be easier to use."
"We faced some certification issues after we upgraded to version 10.2."
"Faster VEAgent Restores"
"We have so many specific technological cracks in Micro Focus, but we are not getting the features, facilities, or coordination between the global delivery centers and the R&D team that we need to express our ideas."
"OpenText Data Protector is more difficult to use and configure than OpenText VIM. The user-friendliness of OpenText Data Protector has to be increased, and the complexity of the tool needs to be reduced."
Barracuda Backup is ranked 38th in Backup and Recovery with 3 reviews while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 99 reviews. Barracuda Backup is rated 8.6, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Barracuda Backup writes "An enterprise solution for backup and ransomware protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". Barracuda Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, whereas OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Symantec Data Loss Prevention.
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