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Jesper Stein's avatar
Jesper Stein
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Dec 07, 2017

To backup or not to backup 365

We are looking at 3rd party backup solutions for Office 365, because the organisation is use to single item restore from mailboxes, restore data that is a year old and so on. My angle on this is th...
  • Peter McDonald's avatar
    Dec 07, 2017

    Hi Jesper,

     

    You are correct you can use the in-built legal hold and data retention settings in Office 365 to cover most of your recovery needs, however this might not tick all the boxes for your company's backup policies as it is still contained within the same system. There are some good options for 3rd party backups like SkyKick,  Backupify & Avepoint, however they mostly will backup to Microsoft Azure and have unlimited retention with multiple backups a day, one item to note is that the data will still be stored with Microsoft (as it is in Azure) if that is a problem or not. 

     

    We have used this with a quite a few customers in the past and while it works we have never needed to resort to using it due to the in-build retention in office 365.

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