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Richard Burdes
Aug 15, 2017Brass Contributor
SharePoint Online Archiving Options?
Hey Folks - is anyone reducing the bloat of SharePoint Online sitesand cost of hosting in o365 by manually or automatically archiving sites or libraries to remote storage? Looking around it looks...
Warwick Ward
Aug 15, 2017Bronze Contributor
Is archiving still a thing? I usually go with the policy if you need it for reference or whatever keep in the system, put in a archive folder maybe, you're paying for the Office 365 storage which is bountiful so why would you want to pay more to host it somewhere else. If you don't need it anymore delete it.
Sure maybe specific cases, but I see it as a on-premises consideration where storage needed to be managed and it was cheaper to get data onto tapes rather than disk.
Sure maybe specific cases, but I see it as a on-premises consideration where storage needed to be managed and it was cheaper to get data onto tapes rather than disk.
Lisa Choi
Nov 19, 2018Copper Contributor
Uhm yes, archiving is still necessary especially when you have users storing documents in a library that exceed the 5000 threshold view limit. Governance and policies enforced by company wide archiving policy.