Is the NEW Microsoft 365 Backup the Smart Choice for Your Business?

Microsoft has now released their Microsoft 365 Backup platform in Preview. Is it crazy to use Microsoft to backup Microsoft 365? Or sensible? And what about pricing?

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:42 Why Backup Microsoft 365?
02:09 Why Do People Think It's Crazy?
03:21 Microsoft 365 Backup Pricing
05:22 Full Demo
06:15 Setup Microsoft Syntex
06:45 Create Azure Resource Group
07:54 Enable Microsoft 365 Backup
08:27 Setup SharePoint Backup
09:06 Setup Exchange Backup
09:53 Setup OneDrive Backup
10:32 How to Restore Data

[martijnvanschie]

Thanks for the explanation. We are looking for a backup solution for a customer, as they requested this feature.

The pricing example is interesting... I find 225 for 1.5TB of data nothing compared to the benefits of the backup. Plus I expect MSFT to integrate better.

If a company has so much data for only 50 employee's it probably important data so worth the extra 225 a month.

And yes, other vendors are probably cheaper but there is always a catch.. either complex integrations... incremental cost when reaching a threshold.. I don't know.

BTW, I don't think it's a reasonable example to have 10Gb of data in a mailbox.

[thletterstudios]

It seems crazy to be paying Microsoft to back up Microsoft 365 data. I feel like any viable use case for Microsoft 365 backup negates the entire Microsoft 365 premise as resilient infrastructure.

[studiotwo]

Interesting. We only backup our SharePoint files at the moment. So, paying for data (rather than per user) may be a good option for some. How are they going to calculate these costs? Presumably if you wish to have retention on your backup, it will cost more?

[townnine]

Microsoft backup sounds way expensive for 5.8 TB of data.

[radpetkov]

Is there documentation if you can restore data from previous specific point of time? Similar to shadow copy? I found that very difficult with Metallic (product of Commvault)

[akyblue]

Thanks Jonathan, very informative video. Our company currently uses Acronis but its worth knowing what Microsoft has got for customers. Thank you. I just subscribed ☺

[yikunobarnaby]

Question: How's does restores work? Is it a full restore or does it merge the data with current emails?

[ChristianRuiz-ywur]

What is it a "Resource groups" for?

[mitchellsmith]

Wait a second. If Microsoft is selling an O365 backup product, isn’t that a tacit admission that the Azure storage cloud is inherently flawed, and could lose data? A properly designed storage network (such as AWS) can withstand multiple simultaneous failures without data loss.

[ChristianRuiz-ywur]

How can we change the "Backup retention" to 3 years for example?

[daelra]

I was going to say. We use Cirrus backup and we worked out we are paying a quarter of what MS are charging for our admittedly heavy use (We're always running out of Sharepoint storage so that's 1.5TB before even thinking about mailboxes and OneDrives).

Also, you are paying for storage for all those historical copies stored too, not just current usage so the costs will increase over time.

I also noticed the backup here was just for one year. Is this something you set up or is that the maximum they can provide? The backup we have is 7 years by default.

What's the retention policy for deleted users? Is there one?

[loxionaudiocast]

Seems Microsoft owns everything now. They replaced all companies that shared their MS Operatinf System. Only next step is to own the companies that use Microsoft products.

[mitchellsmith]

If you’re charging clients $125 a month for Acronis, they would be better off backing up to their own NAS or SAN over the long-term.

[DruDubay]

I'd rather they drive the cost per GB down then go with per user pricing. This type of backup data storage should be sub $0.5/GB even through MS.

[SuperRider-RS]

If I’m backing up 50tb…pay $ 7, 500 monthly…crazy…

[madwhitehatter]

For security reasons, my global account shouldn't have the same access as my backup solution. If ransomware found itself in my tenant, the malicious actors have God rights to my backups. I want separate accounts for these things with separate means of getting an MFA token.

[ajmaddox]

ok, gotta nix some of those 'whooshing' sound effects -- that got annoying with haste - otherwise good video!

[marclnborg]

You really have to think about the retention time, it's limited at the time being.

[studiotwo]

If your tenant is down, what are you going to restore your files to? Our Veeam backup allows us to restore SharePoint documents to a file share, even if M365 is not available.

[Quartzuma]

Hi, thank you for the video. Very easy to follow. One question, do you know if the retention policy of 1 year, is item based, so if a email/file is older then 1 year, this wont be backed up. Or if the retention is snapshot based, so that it will backup up everything, and then save that for a year?