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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...
We have been using Barracuda Essentials for a while since it also office Email Archive and a range of email scanning options.
That being said, we keep getting told by them that there is a delay in backups of new SPO Team Sites that have the Group#0 template due to Microsoft API not being updated yet. Has anyone else been experiencing this issues with new SPO team sites?
The Group#0 template has been around since November 2014. Sounds like Barracuda isn't doing such a great job at keeping up with Office 365. But how would a template affect their ability to backup documents from a site?
From what their dev team have told me, it is due to the new Team setup with an O365 Group and the template in use. my exact response was the same as you, I don't see why the web template is effecting the backup capabilities but that was the reason I was given.
From your experience, is there any application out there that would offer an all in one backup solution to include OD4B, SPO and Exchange online?
I hesitate to make recommendations, but I have seen large companies use the Spanning backup product for EXO, SPO, and OD4B. AvePoint can handle Office 365 Groups too. Skykick also seems to be popular. No backup product that I know can handle Teams (the chats) or Planner.
My recommendation is to secure a test version of multiple products and try them out in your environment. Don't run a test for 10 users - try 100 to make sure that the product can deal with large volumes of data - and always try to restore data too. Many can copy, but a seamless restore is much more difficult.
Great post, TonyRedmond! Backup is not even half of the story. You really need to run restore tests on regular basis.
Just a note for AvePoint, which now also supports Teams. However, since there's still no API for Planner, this part of a Group/Team cannot be covered. Instead, Project Online, Exchange Public Folders and Dynamics 365 are covered.
However, for all readers here: please vote on Microsoft user voice to implement (API) support for Microsoft planner (https://office365.uservoice.com/). Please also share other needed features there. Microsoft seems to have doubts users really want to backup and restore planner content. I found one interesting request for that: https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/289138-office-365-security-compliance/suggestions/16988467-planner
