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Michiel van den Broek's avatar
Michiel van den Broek
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...
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Muditha's avatar
Muditha
MCT
Feb 03, 2017

Veeam has a backup tool but that's just for Exchange Online. 

  • TonyRedmond's avatar
    TonyRedmond
    MVP
    Feb 03, 2017

    AFAIK, the Veeam tool works on the basis of being able to backup data to an on-premises server where the Veeam tools run. This is not the kind of approach that is cloud-friendly. It's OK if you run hybrid environments and use Veeam to support on-premises Exchange, but apart from that...

  • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
    jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    Feb 03, 2017
    Yes, but the SharePoint Online part has a great room for improvement. In regards of a more complete offering I advice Metalogix and Barracuda tools...Metalogix is the most completed one for SPO backups (also ODFB)
    • Phil Maynard's avatar
      Phil Maynard
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 03, 2017

      Many thanks for mentioning Barracuda Juan.

       

      <Disclaimer: I work for Barracuda>

       

      Unlike many solutions, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud backup protects Exchange Online, SharePoint Online AND OneDrive, so offers a complete, one-stop-shop solution for Office 365. You can read more about the solution in our white paper here: -

       

      https://assets.barracuda.com/assets/docs/dms/Barracuda_Backup_WP_Complete_Protection_for_Office_365_US.pdf

       

      If you're looking for more than just backup, Barracuda also offers "Essentials for Office 365", which is a hosted multi-Layer security, backup, archiving & eDiscovery Service.

       

      • TonyRedmond's avatar
        TonyRedmond
        MVP
        Jul 03, 2017

        Phil,

         

        Reading your material makes me think that Barracuda is no different to many other backup vendors in that your code operates at the workload level (Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive) and does not deal with the integrated applications built on top of the workloads (Groups, Teams, Planner, etc.).

         

        Perhaps I am wrong, so let me ask a direct question. Can Barracuda recover a Team or Plan from a backup and restore it in such a way that all of the links that connect information together within the application work properly after the restore? Note that this includes AAD objects.

         

        Thanks,

        TR

    • Rob Ellis's avatar
      Rob Ellis
      Bronze Contributor
      Feb 04, 2017
      I note that Veeam currently say '*SharePoint Online and OneDrive not supported at this time.'.

      I've implemented DocAve Online for SPO and ODFB. It also does EXO, but I've no experience with it.

      At the time, we looked at Metalogix and Metavis, but they had only just announced their merger, so I should really look again to see where they went with backup.

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