Take a Backup of OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online backup and OneDrive for Business data in your Office 365 (Microsoft 365) organization and restore it whenever you need it.

Back Up The Most Common Sharepoint Online Content Types

Back up both classic and modern SharePoint sites, including team sites, communication sites, site collections, and OneDrive for Business user sites. Either all sites residing in the same tenant can be backed up, or only selected ones.

CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 allows you to create local copies of Exchange Online data, so you can also use it to backup mailboxes of Office 365 groups connected to your SharePoint team sites.

Sharepoint Data Can Be Recovered In A Granular Fashion

It is easy to browse through the entire backed-up SharePoint Online data and choose to restore individual sites or site contents (like lists, libraries, folders, or even files and OneNote notebooks) from any point in time. By using the restore job, you can restore SharePoint data to the same or a different Office 365 tenant.

Create SharePoint Sites and Their Contents

When restoring SharePoint data with CodeTwo Backup for Office 365, you can easily create new site collections, subsites, lists, libraries, and folders on the target server directly from the program. As a result, you can retrieve your data anywhere within a SharePoint environment.

Documents can be backed up and recovered in different versions CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 creates new versions of documents whenever they are modified on the target server. By using this program, you can view different server versions of these documents or restore particular versions of documents that were backed up at a specific point in time. Permissions are Mapped to Office 365 Users and Groups

The Office 365 permissions feature allows you to copy permissions between users and groups. This preserves access rights and permission levels for sites or content. Whenever Transferring SharePoint data to another Office 365 tenant. Furthermore, you can transfer permissions originally assigned to inactive or deleted users to new users.

Microsoft 365 Recovery Standard

SharePoint’s recovery capabilities include two components: post-deletion retention and versioning. These features are included in every Microsoft 365 plan and are enabled by default.

Standard versioning lets you keep up to 50,000 last versions of most items in SharePoint, while post-deletion retention helps you recover data within 93 days after it has been deleted.

The article provides more information on the two options.

Retention of Compliance

Microsoft 365 premium subscriptions include compliance retention capabilities. Almost all versions of SharePoint data can be captured & backed up with these powerful tools.

In most cases, compliance retention is used for archiving and e-discovery for litigation and compliance purposes. In compliance retention policies, admins can search and export data offline, but have no automated data recovery capabilities back to Microsoft 365 (since archiving & e-discovery do not require those).

Therefore, the main limitation of this tool is its lack of automated recovery options. SharePoint administrators must download lost data offline and manually upload it back to SharePoint online. Read on for more information.