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Teams files - backup?
thijoubertold Hi, and thanks for your informative answer. We live in rural South Africa where Internet is not guaranteed. What third party tools should we consider in order to maintain a local copy of the SharePoint data?
I had an instance today where I needed critically important data stored in Teams, and had to wait an hour for the Internet to come back.
Internet here can be offline for days....
The critical data is sored in each Channel's Wiki.
KevinTzn Hi,
Here's what I'd recommend. Within teams choose the team that you want to backup files for. Click on the files tab. To the right of the big blue [+New] button are a bunch of options. One of them is "Sync"
Clicking that should install OneDrive (if it's not already installed) and instruct it to create a copy of this channel's files on your computer.
If there are more than a single channel in that team then you may wish to choose the option "open in sharepoint" From there you can go up a level and sync the entire document library for that Team.
If you have multiple teams then you should repeat for each Team.
Technically this is not backup, it's just redundancy. For backup there are various 3rd party tools that can for example restore aspects of your teams how they were at a certain point in time. However if access when offline is your primary concern I think Synching to OneDrive may be all you need.
Hope this helps
Matt