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Michiel van den Broek
Jul 22, 2016Iron Contributor
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...
TonyRedmond
Sep 25, 2018MVP
Backing up to PST files is not a backup solution for Office 365. Anyone who thinks this way needs to reconsider the meaning of backup. Transferring data from a secure, online, protected environment that's designed to encourage compliance and offer super uptime to an insecure, unprotected, and fallible file on someone's personal workstation is an act of utter folly.
Rylan King
Sep 26, 2018Copper Contributor
Thanks, for explaining taking backup in PST file format is a bad idea. What if we backup Office 365 emails in EML file format i.e. a single email message extension??
- TonyRedmondSep 26, 2018MVP
I don`t like that idea either. If you insist on using a backup with Office 365, do yourselves a favor and sign up for one of the cloud-based backup services. Given the volume of messages created and used inside Office 365 today with 100 GB mailboxes and auto-expanding archives, it`s not feasible to use PSTs or individual files. And before you go for a backup solution, ask why you need it, how much it will cost, and how it will add value to your business.
- tim borremansOct 04, 2018Copper Contributor
Hi, someone already used de veeam tool V2 that just came out for making a backup of the whole Office 365 suite(sharepoint,exchange,onedrive,..)? I'm looking for a good solution, Cloud or on prem, but for on prem we should probably use Veeam.
What about the speed of recovering a whole mailbox with Skykick?
regards!
- TonyRedmondOct 04, 2018MVP
Veeam doesn't do the whole of the Office 365 suite. It just does the basic workloads (Exchange, SharePoint, Online).
Veeam® Backup for Microsoft Office 365 eliminates the risk of losing access and control over your Office 365 data including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business – so that your data is always Hyper-Availableand protected.
https://go.veeam.com/backup-office-365
I remain patiently waiting for a backup vendor that can truly process the entire spectrum of Office 365...