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SharePoint Online & Office 365 Backup & Restore Settings.
Andy Dale If you want to replicate content from one Site to another, the best way is to use a migration tool. Tools like Sharegate has the option to use powershell to migrate. You can automate your process using the migration tool. This may not be the best way to do it but is the only way currently.
Maruthi Gadde yes Microsoft have now confirmed it's a limitation of SharePoint Online. Tools like ShareGate and Metalogix are the only option. Both are painfully slow though. Metalogix takes us 20 minutes per site. We have 1200 sites to do.
Have a look at AvePoint - their Deployment Manager and Replicator components, part of AvePoint Cloud Management, will fit the bill.
Rob Ellis have asked AvePoint for further info. Last time we check their backup only restored to original location. We need to continually copy config and content between the development environments. Copy 1200 sites from Live to UAT and then refresh weekly.
- see https://avepointcdn.azureedge.net/assets/webhelp/avepoint-cloud-management/index.htm#!Documents/replicator1.htm
