OpenText Data Protector Reviews and Pricing

Rami.chiha

Principal Systems & Storage Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Sep 3, 2015

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It has a wide range of compatibility and integrates with all OS's.

Pros and Cons

"Reliable Utility that would help a lot to automate backups and recovery operations"

"A lot of internal database corruptions (sometimes it becomes serious); the user has to back up the IDB daily and do the daily maintenance."

What is most valuable?

- Fast and easy to use

- Wide range of compatibility

- Simple integration with all the OS

- Simple GUI interface with a lot features

How has it helped my organization?

Reliable Utility that would help a lot to automate backups and recovery operations

What needs improvement?

- Find a way to protect the IDB (internal database) from corruption without the user interaction

- Improve the Graphical interface look

For how long have I used the solution?

For 4 years

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

- Sometimes you will have problems to push the data protector client installation (Edit the hosts file on the installation server, cell manager and the client)

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

-a lot of Internal Data Base corruptions (sometimes it becomes serious)

The user have to Backup the IDB daily and do the daily maintenance

How are customer service and support?

9/10

How was the initial setup?

straightforward:

- install the cell manager

- install the clients

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I advise to install two cell managers with MOM license in case you have a DR site.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. HP partner

it_user98628

Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 9, 2014

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Integration with RMAN is very stable, robust and provides good diagnostics features to troubleshoot backup issues.

Pros and Cons

"HP Data Protector integration with RMAN is very stable, robust and provides good diagnostics features to troubleshoot backup issues."

"It took a long time to resolve some of the implementation issues."

Valuable Features:

Integration with Oracle RMAN.

Improvements to My Organization:

HP Data Protector integration with RMAN is very stable, robust and provides good diagnostics features to troubleshoot backup issues.

Use of Solution:

10+ years (since it was called Omniback)

Initial Setup:

Straight forward.

We use it for all our

Oracle Database and applications
File servers
VMWare environment [SQL Servers, business & Intranet applications etc]

We had an issue during implementation of off-host LAN free backup of vSphere virtual machines using HP Data Protector. However that was mainly due to limited knowledge of the consulting company implementing the solution. After the implementation we didn’t face any issues.

Implementation Team:

A vendor team of HP.

I would rate them a 3/5, for the following reasons:

It took a long time to resolve some of the implementation issues.
They didn’t recommend the best practices for managing backups in a VMware environment