We performed a comparison between OpenText Data Protector and Rubrik 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."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."
"It's a good product that's pretty easy to use."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"Backup of SAP/Oracle -- they are more robust than the competition."
"Data Protector's GUI is the most useful feature."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The command-line interface is user-friendly and well documented in the reference guide."
"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."
"The web-based approach is the most valuable feature."
"The Auto-Snapshot SLA feature and recovery time are amazing. It took seven seconds to have a server back up and running in production from a total failure."
"CloudOut, because only blocks are pushed after compression and deduplication, not raw sizing."
"The Live Mount feature is excellent; it's useful for the backup administrator and end user."
"The live mount reduces complexity."
"There is a live-restore feature, their Live Mount, and the way it works we can instantly recover a VM, a past backup, to be directly attached to our VMware environment. Rubrik will act as a disk for it. It's like an instant restore. Within a few minutes our VM is up and running. And then, if we want to restore it, we can just migrate it to our actual storage."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"One platform for instant recovery."
"Micro Focus are improving Data Protector with every new version and since we began undergoing training with the latest version we have not faced any real challenges yet. However, their support does need to be improved, in my opinion. In certain critical cases that we've had, they did not provide a satisfactory level of support."
"It can occasionally be inaccurate in its backup/recovery time estimates."
"The online backups of Office 365 have room for improvement. This is now available for the Exchange Online part of Office 365, but we're still waiting for SharePoint Online, Teams, etc. We know that it's coming, but it takes time."
"Virtualization."
"It's very expensive compared to Veeam and other similar solutions."
"The scheduler setup could be better. We are facing some issues scheduling the job based on our requirements."
"I'm uncertain if it supports virtual machine backup and restoration. If they could enhance this aspect, they could gain more support from end users."
"I would like to see a better user interface in the next release."
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"User interface could be improved."
"I want to see more features regarding filtering in the Snapshot Window, as I need to be able to set a filter for specific dates and times. If I want to check an old backup, I must scroll through one or two years of backups to find what I'm looking for."
"It needs to support more applications natively, like MySQL/MariaDB."
"The functionality is missing, but they are very receptive to our thoughts and ideas."
"There are some corner cases where the Rubrik Connector (Agent) still doesn't work for our clients."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"The open source database needs to be supported."
OpenText Data Protector is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 99 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews. OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Dell NetWorker, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our OpenText Data Protector vs. Rubrik report.
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