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The standard backup/restore options aren't enough for SPO
Can't you copy tasks list to an other list using SP2010 workflow before they get deleted?
In my experience DocAve will allow for a much easier individual File restore experience and is the best backup tool. The trade off is that DocAve is probably the more expensive of the available products.
You can also take a look at Sharegate which will be a much lower cost solution and provides a good restore experience. The trade off is that the Backup experience is slow and more manual.
We're helping the client with this, actually. As said, there are several ways this cat can be skinned, either by copying to another list or, in our case, copying the task data to an Azure database to avoid list view threshold issues and keep the data more firmly under the client's control.
But the point is that the damage has already been done, and Microsoft's backup policy does not help recover the data at all. There are gaps in MS's backup approach that would not usually be a problem on-prem. It's a downside to going online that I think people need to be more generally aware of and plan for when migrating.
