We performed a comparison between IDERA SQL Safe Backup and OpenText Data Protector based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"Performs the backup properly and protects our data."
"The initial setup is straightforward if you understand Data Protector."
"The feature that was most valuable was that we could restore one mailbox and we could do different backups for different databases."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Micro Focus Data Protector's most valuable feature is its interaction with the fiber share. It is easy to use, we use it to back up without any problem to VTLs, and can use the Fiber Channel that is still the TCP."
"It is a traditional backup model. If you talk about file server and the official Windows database, it's a stable product."
"The installation was simple and provided an easy way to install even on Unix servers. It has excellent features like deduplication."
"The reliability of HP Data Protector is the most valuable feature for us."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."
"Virtualization."
"Integration with the market applications must be improved, such as MS Exchange, MS Active Directory, SAP and Oracle. Other backup tools are more efficient with the integrated backups."
"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."
"The technical support is poor and should be improved."
"I don't like this solution so much because it's very technical and compared to Commvault and Veeam, it's not so user-friendly. The interface needs improvement."
"They should design the solution so that it is much easier for deployment and make the UI easy to use."
"In SAP restoration, we faced issues with changing the SIDs and changing the path for every backup object. It is quite a lengthy process to do that."
"VM backups needs to be improved. They need to make it similar to the way Veeam and Commvault are doing the virtual backups."
Earn 20 points
IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 76th in Backup and Recovery while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 99 reviews. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IDERA SQL Safe Backup writes "You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, whereas OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Symantec Data Loss Prevention. See our IDERA SQL Safe Backup vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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