Forum Discussion
Do backups for Office 365 make sense?
I have been wondering this myself. Aside from needing a longer than 14 day retention period on deleted items does backup gain you anything. MS garuantee the actual mailbox and SharePoint stores correct?
You cant restore a mailbox from backup, so if you have emptied the Deleted items/Recoverable items folder then its gone.
If you are worried about this for some mailboxes you can put a In-place hold on them. Not sure what MS would say if you do it for all mailboxes.
In sharepoint/onedrive a more fine grained restore, inside the 14 days could be useful.
You can only ask MS to restore the whole "site", think collection is the level you can order a restore on, so if you notice a deletion within 14 days but there have been new/modified documents after the RTO you need then you need to handle that difference manually.
But you also have the "sharepointtrashcans" to restore files from so maybe that is enough.
