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Help - Office 365 Backup Policy
There can be a lot of discussions about this subject! There’s cloud to cloud backups which I support more than cloud to on-premises backup solution but overall office 365 contains a lot of security features to protect against abnormal usage and preventing access to people who shouldn’t have access! Keeping your admins to minimum and always use MFA
Is more than recommended! There are features of putting important document on hold! Putting data on-premises both defeats the purpose of the cloud and also puts data at more risk for breach
Agreed on the on-premises comments. (Disclaimer: I work for a cloud-to-cloud backup company. But, FWIW, I've specialized in backups for 25 years and always been a fan of cloud-based backup.)
My concern about the built-in Sharepoint backup is that restore is all or nothing, AND it's only the last 14 days. I'm also not sure what the SLA is there (RTOs RPOs). It seems very similar to the built-in Salesforce backup that Salesforce will tell you is an absolute last resort. From a backup perspective restoring your entire environment because a part of it is damaged has never been a good idea.
The Onedrive restore features handles the last 30 days. If the thing you're trying to fix is over 30 days old, you're out of luck.
- Yeah! You have to put things into perspective and think about it really! In some situations I guess that’s a good option doing a cloud to cloud backup! But most scenarios I don’t really think so! You have the 2 step recycle bin for for files, versioning for content within files and restore for the library in case of disaster or a night out coming home and doing some work! Last resort the MS backup!
Very important document could be set on hold Or set as record
Together with good security measures this will do well enough for most people
Adam"for most people" is the key phrase there. Most people don't get ransomware. (But it happens every day.) Most people don't have a hacker gain access to a privileged account. (But it happens every day.) So most people won't end up really needing something outside what MS give them.
BUT if your company DOES have one of these things happen to them, you're out of luck if you don't have a third-party backup of your O365 data.
That's why I think it's irresponsible to say that you don't third party backup of any computing service.
- I get your point, but I’m not saying no one needs this as I told you there are use cases! Some of your scenarios I believe I covered! We can go very far into our discussions on what a hacker has the possibilities of doing and there are always one step further securing the data! I’m not saying there is something wrong with doing a cloud - cloud backup but I still believe in saying this is overkill for many 365 customers!