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Dominic Horne
Brass Contributor
Jul 14, 2017

Help - Office 365 Backup Policy

Can someone please point me to the official O365 backup policy(link/document). I'm interested to know the backup policy for SharePoint sites and OneDrive on Office 365.
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W. Curtis Preston's avatar
W. Curtis Preston
Copper Contributor
Oct 29, 2018

"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.

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adam deltinger
MVP
Oct 29, 2018
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!
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    W. Curtis Preston
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 29, 2018

     

    IMO it's only overkill if you don't care about your company's data stored in Office365.  If a company is prepared to take the risk of losing everything stored there, then sure.  They don't need 3rd party backup. Short of that, I can't think of a single use case where it's overkill.


    That's my story and I'm sticking to it. 

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