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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...
Our customers are using the Layer2 Cloud Connector to backup their SharePoint libraries to a local NAS file share or to their own Azure cloud. While it is originally thought for two-way synchronization of pre-selected structured data and files / documents from 100+ IT systems with Office 365, it could also be used for backup (as a one-way sync) driven by flexible PowerShell scripting.
And that's just wonderful to be able to backup SharePoint libraries... But... given that the recent explosion of SharePoint usage within Office 365 is driven by Teams and Office 365 Groups, isn't backing up just one type of data from these unified repositories an imperfect solution?
The point I am making is that solutions like this are based on old-style on-premises thinking and utterly fail to take account of the new world that exists within Office 365. It's great to back up one piece of data, until a problem happens and you discover that all the surrounding context is unavailable because that was not copied along with the backed up data.
Tony,
I totally agree regarding the missing context. Tools, such as the Layer2 Cloud Connector or others, will not provide the perfect recovery for a collaboration environment after some disaster. But it could help to meet some (yes, old-fashioned) compliance rules by allowing to physically own the documents as required in some cases. Document synchronization could also help to manage a transition period, where traditional file shares cannot be removed for any reason.
