OpenText Data Protector Primary Use Case
We use OpenText Data Protector for Oracle database backup and some applications that run for database security.
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MohammedPasha1
Independent consultant at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
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.
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Ngonga Nkuba
Assistant Manager - Data Center at Bank of Zambia
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.
Due to some management issues, we're moving to Data Domain.
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MohammedPasha1
Independent consultant at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »We use the OpenText Data Protectoras an enterprise backup solution. It performs backups for various company setups, including servers and storage systems.
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Santosh Basutkar
Project Team Lead at Microlink.in
We use Micro Focus Data Protector for taking backups throughout our entire data center, which includes backups for our SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL databases, as well as for the Windows virtual instances which also require file-level, user data, and database backups.
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Nigel Hobden
Director at Random Group Ltd
We don't use Micro Focus widely. It's used as a backup-to-tape system. Overall, we have about five users because a couple of our clients use it as well.
View full review »We use Data Protector for backup and recovery.
We have two different systems. We use Microsoft Azure Backup for VM machines and Micro Focus for our file server, database, and cloud backups, like Exchange Online and so forth.
View full review »I am a manager at a mid-size non-profit and we use this to backup HPE UNIX servers.
View full review »We primarily use data protection in complex environments with large Oracle databases, Hyper-V, and VMWare hypervisors with replication of backup sets to DR site.
It's used for data protection of large Oracle Databases, backups of small branch offices, zero-downtime backup of mission-critical databases with HPE storage (XP or 3PAR), data protection of most common NAS appliances through NDMP protocol, and the backup of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Sharepoint, and the Microsoft SQL Server.
It provides a consolidation of backups to the tape library and to the cloud provider.
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Arnel Damasin
Datacenter Engineer at Al Ittefaq Steel Products Company
We primarily use the solution for data backups.
View full review »We use the solution for backup data protection of on-premises, in-cloud, and virtual environments. Also, we use it for the features such as production tab and recall tool.
View full review »We use the solution mainly for backup and recovery of all our infrastructures. Also, we are using Veeam for this purpose.
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Bill Lim
System Engineer at Tarch
I provide Data Protector as a solution to my customers, but I have fewer clients using the product these days.
View full review »file backup and VM backup
View full review »We can back up Oracle databases, SQL databases, Windows machines, Linux, and virtual machines like VMware with this product.
View full review »We primarily use the solution as a backup. It basically backs up all of my premium items.
View full review »We use Micro Focus Data Protector to back up all our infra servers, plus file share and some VM backup.
We primarily use the solution for our server backup and some Linux system backups as well as a backup for our SQL.
View full review »The primary use case is mainly for data protection for both short-term and long-term retention. We are resellers of Micro Focus and I am a storage and backup engineer.
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Aamir Majeed
Storage / Backup Administrator at Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
The primary use case is integration with the HP storage unit. There is an HP product line called HP High-End Storage. We are primarily using Micro Focus Data Protector for SAP RT application, which is an earlier version.
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StevenJamal
Enterprise Engineer at Computech Limited
The primary reason clients purchase this solution is for backup.
View full review »Micro Focus Data Protector is used for data backups.
View full review »The solution is used in protection across a heterogeneous computing environment.
View full review »We are using this solution to back up our data from SAP HANA and Microsoft applications. We also use it to back up our domain and file servers.
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Ola Zaher
Head manager at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using the on-prem version of this solution. We use the software for both the Microsoft application backup and Oracle backup.
We are planning to switch to Veeam in the next six months.
View full review »We run all of the bank applications on it.
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Abuzaid Saad
Head, IT Network, Security & Data Center at ARABSAT
Our primary use case is backing up our data and restoring it when required.
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Tuan-Phan Anh
Technical Manager at CPCIT
I use the Micro Focus Data Protector for our corporate data backup requirements. That is the main business need for this product by our company.
View full review »Our primary use case is to back up databases, file systems, servers and information in the database.
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OpenText Data Protector
June 2025

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