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Help - Office 365 Backup Policy
Agreed on the on-premises comments. (Disclaimer: I work for a cloud-to-cloud backup company. But, FWIW, I've specialized in backups for 25 years and always been a fan of cloud-based backup.)
My concern about the built-in Sharepoint backup is that restore is all or nothing, AND it's only the last 14 days. I'm also not sure what the SLA is there (RTOs RPOs). It seems very similar to the built-in Salesforce backup that Salesforce will tell you is an absolute last resort. From a backup perspective restoring your entire environment because a part of it is damaged has never been a good idea.
The Onedrive restore features handles the last 30 days. If the thing you're trying to fix is over 30 days old, you're out of luck.
Very important document could be set on hold Or set as record
Together with good security measures this will do well enough for most people
Adam
"for most people" is the key phrase there. Most people don't get ransomware. (But it happens every day.) Most people don't have a hacker gain access to a privileged account. (But it happens every day.) So most people won't end up really needing something outside what MS give them.
BUT if your company DOES have one of these things happen to them, you're out of luck if you don't have a third-party backup of your O365 data.
That's why I think it's irresponsible to say that you don't third party backup of any computing service.
- I get your point, but I’m not saying no one needs this as I told you there are use cases! Some of your scenarios I believe I covered! We can go very far into our discussions on what a hacker has the possibilities of doing and there are always one step further securing the data! I’m not saying there is something wrong with doing a cloud - cloud backup but I still believe in saying this is overkill for many 365 customers!
IMO it's only overkill if you don't care about your company's data stored in Office365. If a company is prepared to take the risk of losing everything stored there, then sure. They don't need 3rd party backup. Short of that, I can't think of a single use case where it's overkill.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.