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What is Your Backup Strategy
I don't consider OneDrive or SharePoint to be backup solutions in themselves. Admittedly, both have features which make it easier for users and admins to recover data such as version history and two stage recycle bins, retention policies etc, but these are by no means a substitute for a traditional backup solution. If you want to backup your M365 environment in the traditional sense, then you are best looking at a third party product at the moment.
PeterRising Agreed with you! OneDrive is a file sync tool, but suitable for backing up. SharePoint and OneDrive support version histories, but not enough for data backup. Using a third-party backup tool should be a better option. Check out cubebackup or veeam.
OneDrive and SharePoint are more convenience way since many people are familiar with it and has been working with it and license is available to many companies so they don't have to worry about new license or deployment of new products.
However, for more advance scenario there is Microsoft product called Data Protection Manager which could do what you explained:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/dpm/dpm-overview?view=sc-dpm-2019
Interesting, I've not heard of that product before. Looking at this though, it seems to be more an on-premises backup tool than something that can backup O365. Perhaps I misread your OP though and this is what you were in fact talking about.
You are right, it is on-premise product and not on cloud and it provides comprehensive backup solution. Actually, I didn't asked question but I start a discussion and since OneDrive is known to many people, I decided to bring that up to see what others think about it and also see other backup strategies.
During COVID-19 backup is challenging because if our employees are working from home and with their own PC, we want to make sure our company data are secure and protected but we don't want to backup their personal files and pictures in our company data center
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