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Best practice for backing up a site collection prior to programmatic changes?
I have a customer with an existing Office 365 tenant and live Intranet production site in a site collection, and I wish to run some custom deployment scripts on this site collection to create new sub...
Third party migration tools for SPO are quite well known and specifically two of them: Sharegate and Metalogix....any of both are good for what you need to do...in regards of backups I would go for two approaches:
(1) Make a copy of the site collection before starting the deployment using the migration tool you have finally chosen
(2) Invest also in a backup tool bearing in mind that backups need some time to be done. Here you have Metalogix and Barracuda Backup as my personal recommendations
(1) Make a copy of the site collection before starting the deployment using the migration tool you have finally chosen
(2) Invest also in a backup tool bearing in mind that backups need some time to be done. Here you have Metalogix and Barracuda Backup as my personal recommendations