Office 365 is not a Backup!
So we see this time and time again. Companies storing their data in Office 365 and assuming this is as good as a backup. It’s not!
Granted, there are features of Office 365 like Version History and Retention Policies that will certainly help protect your data in certain circumstances, but it is not a true backup.
Even Microsoft’s Office 365 small print, suggests customers should have a 3rd party backup in place.
So why should you back up your Office 365 data? Well, the same as any backup. You do this because your data is valuable to your business and you need to protect it against accidental or malicious loss.
A backup will give you the following:
- The ability to recover data that has been completely deleted (accidentally or maliciously) from Office 365
- Protection against ransomware attacks
- Granular recovery of individual files or items, as well as mass recovery of whole sites, folders or mailboxes
- Historic versions of your data, beyond that of the built-in Office 365 file version history
- Protection against Microsoft outages such as hardware, data centre, or region failures
- An entire copy of your Office 365 data held securely away from your Office 365 tenancy, ideal for disaster recovery
So what data should you back up?
Well, everything that is important to you and your business.
- Mailbox data – email, calendar entries, to-do lists
- SharePoint Sites – All your data helps in SharePoint sites
- OneDrive Folders– personal data held in OneDrive
- MS Teams and Groups – Data held in Teams groups
If you have any questions regarding Office 365 backups or wish to explore our fully managed backup services please get in touch here.
