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Iron Contributor

Jul 22, 2016

Back-up tools for Office 365

Started this question a while back on Yammer. What tools do you use to back-up mail and files stored in Office 365? The fact that your files are back-upped inside and outside the datacenters of...

Copper Contributor

Feb 02, 2018

I should add at the time we started using the product we had a very small workload of data in O365 (probably 20 mailboxes and a few sites...35-40GBs). We were a company of about 250 people and I wouldn't have expected the overall data set to exceed 2TBs. I definitely had concerns when/if the data set reached or exceeded that level, and/or trying to do a restore of all those materials (the restores I did do the in the single GB size were decent).

Robse

MVP

Feb 02, 2018

Hey Christopher Moore,

great use case, that you shared.

It's funny with the AvePoint pricing. :-D Although they have changed their pricing entirely, there're always these rumors with too high prices. Would you check tool capabilities independently of prices or is it your first filter criteria?

Robse
MVP
Feb 12, 2018
Hey Christopher Moor,

sorry I didn't got back to you earlier. You're right, I'm working for AvePoint, but that's not the point. I like your wording (something like) "if it's the perfect tool, no, but it covers the use case..." This is exactly my view! I'd like to encourage people to compare options and chose the right one for their needs, not the perfect one. Therefore I was interested, why you're directly excluding options without really comparing.

Times are changing very fast and cheap products could be very expensive 6 months later (or the other way around) as well as missing features can be included a few months later. Hence, I'm not pushing for a certain product, I just want to encourage everybody to really compare in order to find the best product for their use cases. :-)

Have a great day
Christopher Moore
Copper Contributor
Feb 02, 2018
Pricing isn’t necessarily the primary criteria but, as for many orgs, it looms large. In this case I didn’t look at AvePoint more fully due to the price point. You work for AvePoint right?