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Backup solution for sharepoint online document libraries
It totally depends on what you want to do. What is it that you want to protect yourself from?
If you want backups like you would do in the on-premises environments then you would probably look at expensive 3rd party solutions.
In general I find that more and more customers simply don't bother.
Traditionally you would take backups for disaster recovery ( well this is Microsoft's problem as they manage the systems)
Then to handle the "oops I deleted a file", you can go to the recycle bin.
Then finally the option of "I made a mistake in my document update and I need to get my document back" ... You should have considered version control if you hadn't already done so.
Does anyone knows if it is possible to backup SP online with Azure Backup for example ? I have a project to put 3TB of data Under SP Online, and backup is a sensitive point on this case study. Thanks in advance for your help
Stephane KLOIS You probably already have this solved.
How about a solution that makes use of standard features out of the box:
[1] run in Azure a virtual windows machine with sufficient for your needs storage https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/Microsoft.WindowsServer?tab=Overview
[2] Install on the machine the Office 365 install for OneDrive for Business
[3] SYNC whatever document library you want https://support.office.com/en-us/article/sync-sharepoint-files-with-the-new-onedrive-sync-client-6de9ede8-5b6e-4503-80b2-6190f3354a88
Hope this helps, if not you then others.
- Thank you very much for your feedback. In the end, we went with a third party vendor to do the backup. We deployed on premises server for a part of the backup and some cloud storage space for others (requirements from the project)
Also thank you for the link below ( https://servicetrust.microsoft.com/ ). Every day, I'm Learning Something new about microsoft and their cloud services.