Communication & Collaboration9 March 20204 min read

Backup Office 365

CSPRO Backup for Office 365 enables full or incremental backup of selected Office 365 mailboxes, public folders, as well as data from SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Teams.

LCLiam CarterCSPRO insights
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CSPRO Backup for Office 365 enables full or incremental backup of selected Office 365 mailboxes, public folders, as well as data from SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Teams.

For backup storage, advanced search options are available, and it allows you to recover either entire mailboxes and site collections, or just selected data types: from email folders, calendars, and contacts in Exchange Online or lists and libraries in SharePoint and OneDrive to individual elements such as emails or e-mail attachments.

How does the program work?

1. Offline back-up of the mailboxes from Office 365

Back up the Office 365 mailboxes and save the copy locally. Enable automatic, incremental backups to keep your mailbox copies up-to-date. Keep the backup as long as necessary to restore the backed-up data when needed. Unbind Office 365’s native retention periods.

2. Back-up of public folders in Office 365

Easily back up the contents of public folders in your Office 365 environment to make sure that no important data is permanently lost.

3. Back-up for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

Automatically back up data from SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. With the program. You can provide an additional layer of protection by protecting entire SharePoint site collections and sites for teams, including subpages, libraries, lists, folders, individual items, and you personal important files stored on the individual OneDrive of Office 365.

Backup of team data

Protect your team data by backing up documents stored on SharePoint andOne Drive for Business pages. If necessary, move the data between teams or create new teams on a different Office 365 tenant with the backed up Exchange and SharePoint data.

Migrate from SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

Use CSPRO Backup for Office 365to migrate content from one SharePoint or OneDrive for Business platform to another. Simply download the data from the SharePoint Online source and restore it to other destinations, such as a SharePoint page, library, or folder that resides in the same or different environment.

Continuous incremental back-up

Go through a one-time backup or create jobs for automatically recovering incremental backups. All backup jobs run in the background.

Data security

Never put all the eggs in a basket. CSPRO Backup for Office 365 lets you back up and store your cloud-based mailboxes locally. Each backup can be browsed offline and can be uploaded to the cloud or Exchange on-premises as needed.

Immediate backup vs. Scheduler for automatic backups

Start the back-up immediately or use the built-in scheduler to create a job for automatic back-up.

Central Administration

Manage all mailbox back-ups from one place. Create back-up jobs for the entire Office 365 tenant or for selected mailboxes. Browse all offline backups and play them without logging in to the user account.

Unlimited data retention and complete control

Keep your backed-up data for as long as necessary. Computer Support Professionals Backup for Office 365 secures Office 365 mailboxes locally. However, that’s why you do not have to worry about the data retention policy. You alone decide how long the backup stays on your hard drive.

Export to PST and automatic archiving

Back up your backups with jobs that periodically archive your storage, or export the content to .pst files. Combine the archiving function with an adequate retention policy to control the usage of the storage.

Granular back-up, for instance

  • You can start the back-up process for one or more clients.
  • Back up selected mailboxes, folders, items with a specific date of change, or from specific folders.
  • Browse your back-up and view folders and items.

Granular restoration

Replay entire mailboxes, selected folders, or specific items. Your backups are also stored in chronological order. Each copy can be loaded as needed.

Browse the backup looking for specific folders or items. Use search filters such as modification date or sender properties to find the information you are looking for.

Data recovery to other mailboxes and Office 365 plans

The backed-up data does not necessarily have to be returned to the original location. Loads the items into other users’ mailboxes or into other Office 365 tenants.

Support for all element types

Back-up and recovery include all element types. Selected folder types such as deleted items or junk e-mail can be excluded from the back-up process.

Neutral behavior

The back-up process is also invisible to the end user. It does not affect the availability and performance of Office 365 and the mailbox.

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Frequently asked questions

An Office 365 backup can protect mailboxes, public folders and data from SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Teams, using full or incremental backups. A good backup tool covers these data types and can recover anything from entire mailboxes and site collections down to individual emails, attachments, calendars, contacts, lists and libraries.

Keeping a separate copy means you are not putting all your eggs in one basket. A local backup of cloud mailboxes is not tied to Office 365's native retention periods, so you decide how long to keep it. Each backup can be browsed offline and restored to the cloud or to an on-premises Exchange server when needed.

Yes. Granular restoration lets you restore entire mailboxes, selected folders or specific items, and backups are stored in chronological order so you can load the version you need. Search filters such as modification date or sender help you find items, and data can be restored to the original mailbox, another user's mailbox or a different Office 365 tenant.

No. The backup process runs in the background and is invisible to end users, without affecting the availability or performance of Office 365 or their mailboxes. Backups can start immediately or run automatically on a schedule, and continuous incremental backups keep the copies up to date.

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