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Michiel van den Broek's avatar
Michiel van den Broek
Iron Contributor
Jul 22, 2016

Back-up tools for Office 365

Started this question a while back on Yammer. What tools do you use to back-up mail and files stored in Office 365?   The fact that your files are back-upped inside and outside the datacenters of...
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TonyRedmond's avatar
TonyRedmond
MVP
Jul 03, 2017

Phil,

 

Reading your material makes me think that Barracuda is no different to many other backup vendors in that your code operates at the workload level (Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive) and does not deal with the integrated applications built on top of the workloads (Groups, Teams, Planner, etc.).

 

Perhaps I am wrong, so let me ask a direct question. Can Barracuda recover a Team or Plan from a backup and restore it in such a way that all of the links that connect information together within the application work properly after the restore? Note that this includes AAD objects.

 

Thanks,

TR

Phil Maynard's avatar
Phil Maynard
Copper Contributor
Jul 03, 2017

Hi Tony,

 

Yes, it's currently designed to protect at the workload level.

 

In terms of being different to any other vendor, I'd suggest that our solution is far easier to use and more complete.

 

For example, with SharePoint, items can be restored directly into SharePoint Online from the backups of Document Libraries, Site Assets, Site Pages, Picture Libraries, and Form Templates in Team Sites, Public Sites, Wiki Sites, and Publishing Sites.

 

 

 

  • TonyRedmond's avatar
    TonyRedmond
    MVP
    Jul 03, 2017

    So it is the same as the other backup products available for Office 365? If not, what are the unique differentiators in the Barracuda suite?

    • Phil Maynard's avatar
      Phil Maynard
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 03, 2017
       
      Not really. Unlike other popular on-premises backup solutions like Unitrends, Symantec, Dell, and Veeam, Barracuda Backup is the first complete backup solution to offer protection for Office 365. While point solutions like Cloudfinder and CloudAlly offer protection for Office 365 they don’t offer support for on-premises environments and must be used in conjunction with traditional backup software or solutions. Spanning and Backupify, owned by EMC and Datto respectively, are sold as standalone products with no integration between each vendors’ on-premises backup solutions. Barracuda is the only vendor to fully integrate Cloud-to-Cloud backup as part of a complete – physical, virtual, and cloud – backup and disaster recovery solution.
       
      While most of the standalone SaaS backup solutions mentioned above contain restrictions on how frequently you can backup data, where you can restore data to, or how long you can keep your data with fixed retention policies, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup has no restrictions. Backup schedules and retention policies are completely flexible and customizable to fit your needs. Data can be restored
      in a variety of different ways, which includes restoring to different users and different folders. There are no limits to the number of Office 365 instances or number of users you can protect and you also have the option to export data outside of your Office 365 environment by downloading it.
       
      At a more granular level, you can see a summary of our differentiation below: -
       
       
      Best regards
       
      Phil
      • Oleg Melnikov's avatar
        Oleg Melnikov
        Copper Contributor
        Apr 07, 2018

        Phil, which document this comparison table was taken from?

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