This week on the All About 365 podcast,

I finally got back together for the first time since before March to record in-person – socially distanced of course!
On the show today we discussed a topic that comes up regularly; should you backup your data in Microsoft 365 or not?
There’s a lot of information about this topic, primarily from backup vendors who are keen to provide solutions, and Microsoft also do claim that services like OneDrive form part of a backup solution. But what’s the truth? Do backup vendors provide a valuable solution, or is it something you don’t need.
I blogged about this topic over on Practical 365 a few weeks ago (read part one and part two here) but wanted to go into a little bit more detail, and get Jason’s take on the matter as well. Take a listen to the show, and read the show notes below and let us know what you think.
- Are retention policies a substitute for backups?
- Retention policies aren’t backups, but they are a part of the picture
- Other components in Office 365 form part of that strategy
- High availability and replication
- Security of the service
- Recovery of items requires skill
- What can backup software do for Microsoft 365?
- Exchange and SharePoint/OneDrive with some Teams, or in some cases planner as well
- Not other services
- Teams voice?
- Yammer?
- Chat and channel messages with full fidelity?
- Microsoft Lists?
- PowerApps?
- Power BI?
- Sway?
- Microsoft Forms?
- Configuration settings?
- Device registrations?