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Brass Contributor

Sep 16, 2019

SharePoint Online Recycle Bin Copy/Backup

Hi, This might be a odd question but is it possible at all to make a backup or copy of my Recycle Bin, if not possible no worries. Reason for asking : Some people deletes file and remembers 1...

Bronze Contributor

Sep 17, 2019

Hi,

jvdwesthuizen3rd party product would do the trick ( something like https://spanning.com/products/office365-backup/) , but seems a bit excessive. If it was my project I would just agree the service level with the customer/business and set it at 93 days. I know a lot of orgs that only have 30 days backup of servers etc.

Kind regards

Andy

jvdwesthuizen

Brass Contributor

Sep 17, 2019

Andrew Hodges

Thanks for the update and details.

Is there perhaps a powershell script (or command rather) that you know of that I can use to copy files to my local pc or server?

Thanks.

Andrew Hodges
Bronze Contributor
Sep 17, 2019
jvdwesthuizen afraid not.

Have you looked at retention labels? Applying retention labels makes it harder for users to delete files as they have to physically remove the retention label before being able to delete the content. Its not actually how I would have implemented retention labels but may be useful in this case.
- jvdwesthuizen
  Brass Contributor
  Sep 17, 2019
  Andrew Hodges
  
  Yes, I'm aware of this and have looked onto it but then IT have to remove the files and want to avoid that and also sometimes poeple creates folders / files by mistake, then they can jsut delete them.
  
  So there is no possible way do possibly sync / download the sharepoint online recycle bin with a script or another way?
  
  Thanks.
  - Andrew Hodges
    Bronze Contributor
    Sep 17, 2019
    jvdwesthuizen Not that I have seen, all restored content is restored to its original location and there isnt an option to restore it somewhere else.