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Jun 26, 2017

Microsoft Backup

Assuming nothing has changes, do you know if Office 365 Groups offers the same retention/restore options as SharePoint online? Example, Microsoft will make a backup every 12 hours and keep it for 14...

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Jun 26, 2017

In April we delivered "soft-delete" which retains a group for 30 days, see this:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Restore-a-deleted-Office-365-Group-b7c66b59-657a-4e1a-8aa0-8163b1f4eb54?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1

https://blogs.office.com/2017/04/06/whats-new-in-office-365-groups-for-april-2017/

jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Jun 26, 2017
Apart of this for Group SPO Site you have the daily backup done by Microsoft
- paul mitchell
  Brass Contributor
  Jun 27, 2017
  Thank you for your replies, in summary
  The ‘soft’ delete could be used to recover a group that was deleted in error, retained for 30 days. In addition, Microsoft also take a daily backup of a group which is retained for 14 days, in line with SPO?
  - Tom Jamed
    Brass Contributor
    Jun 28, 2017
    Please correct me if the SLAs have changed but I believe the daily SPO backup occurs every 12 hours and is held for 14 days. Saying this, there are limitations on the granularity of the backup. Focusing on SharePoint Online there is a lack of ability to restore a single item or list/library - what I find gets deleted most commonly by End Users. Also lacks the ability to remove the items from SharePoint but bring them back at a later time if required controlling sprawl.
    
    With Exchange, I believe items can be restored but I believe there was some limitations around Folders.
    
    If any of this is a concern of yours Paul, flick me a pm and I can point you in the right direction.

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