Hello clever peeps
I have been tasked with finding a definitive answer to this question, and have thus far been unsuccessful…I know you will be able to clarify it for us…
Can an Office 365 retention policy be used a suitable backup and restore system for SharePoint?
We are undergoing Digital Transformation (we’re a school academy trust group) and moving as much content to SharePoint as possible. The issue of being able to restore deleted files comes to mind. As it stands, we have applied a retention policy to all of SharePoint, which means deleted files are stored for several years.
I know nothing beats a ‘traditional’ backup, but can this model work AT ALL? I mean, if someone deleted an important file a few months ago, could we dive into the preservation library and restore it? How?
What are the pitfalls of relying on this as our means of backup? Can we remain GDPR compliant by removing data granularly as needed? Is ‘granularly‘ even a word?!
Thank you so much in advance for your time
Thanks Beau – TOTALLY agree that dedicated segregated backup is the clear winner – but is it technically possible (data centre catastrophe aside) to restore files from retention…easily…?
I ask because I thought I read somewhere that you can’t restore individual files – at least, not without a lot of faff!
Hello,
I’m having same question and I find that Retention could be a winner rather than backup solution.
Why should I think, check, deploy, buy, document any backup solution, when Retention for 20 years/Forever can be enabled in few clicks…
Hi Jonathan,
you are right, you cant restore down to item level. here are 2 blogs to share with you how MS native works: https://www.avepoint.com/blog/office-365/protecting-email-microsoft-cloud-exchange-online-backup/
https://www.avepoint.com/blog/sharepoint-hybrid/how-to-protect-your-data-with-sharepoint-online-backup/
if you are interested in more options for backing up in the cloud, maybe we can have a further chat about it