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Disaster Recovery options for Sharepoint online and OneDrive for Business in Office 365
I have several customers that are using Sharepoint online shared document libraries somewhat like a file server shared folder. Some have the sharepoint folder mapped to thier windows pc as a mapped ...
- If you are really concerned by ransomware you should forbid mapped drives and local sync.
- Anyway, you should backup (using a third party tool).
- There is also versioning that could help you, but it is cumbersome to restore thousands of files from their previous versions (also if you use scripts), and moreover some ransomware is known to encrypt repeatedly all files, pushing out clean versions.
- Finally you can ask Microsoft to restore their backup. Give a look to http://www.jasperoosterveld.com/2016/08/sharepoint-online-backup-restore/
For a backup and recovery solution in SPO and ODFB just go for third party tools...Microsoft's backup option is not useful
Agreed. Better than nothing, though...