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Back-up tools for Office 365
Yet another attempt by people who would like to persuade Office 365 tenants to export/backup data to PSTs to hoodwink their intended victims. I admire your persistence, but backing up to PSTs is a bad, bad, bad, idea except in specific circumstances (like eDiscovery export to give data to external investigators).
Finally we were going into the right direction again, because TonyRedmond made again clear, exporting Exchange is NOT an office 365 backup!!! However, unfortunately @shiv Gupta did not make her homework and don't understand the business requirements of real companies in times of security and GDPR.
Again, don't get trick by people, who name their Exchange export engines Office 365 backups! Office 365 is an entire suite of several products, where you can store content. It's not only Exchange! Ideally your solution should cover at least most of it (SharePoint, OD4B, Groups, Teams, Exchange). Tony mentioned some example solutions, which can do this. Also, PST is not an reliable backup format, especially in times of data security.
Please also refer to Analyst houses Gartner and/or Forrester for further details. Especially to all, who want to recommend an Exchange export engine again: Please do your homework!