BACKUP FOR
MICROSOFT 365

What is Intermedia Backup for Microsoft 365?

Intermedia Backup for Microsoft 365 provides simple and complete protection for Microsoft 365 users with regular backups and unlimited capacity and retention for your Microsoft 365 tenant, including Exchange, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365 Groups. Backup for Microsoft 365 can be turned on in seconds with up to 6 daily backups, with no data limits or overages using a full cloud to cloud backup, so there is no impact on your business or any requirements for additional hardware or software. Most importantly customers can restore data in seconds because of the comprehensive and fast recovery options.

Why does Microsoft 365 need to be backed up?

Microsoft 365 doesn't protect you against user error, malicious deletion of data or hacker-initiated data breaches, meaning Microsoft 365 alone cannot be considered a disaster recovery tool. Microsoft 365 offers customers geo-redundancy of data, but this doesn't help when errors or issues are replicated in the cloud so Microsoft recommends that businesses use third-party backup solutions. Intermedia Backup for Microsoft 365 also extends data retention beyond the native 14 days (Exchange Online) and 30 days (Microsoft 365 Groups) to unlimited protection.

What Microsoft 365 services can be protected with Backup for Microsoft 365?

Backup for Microsoft 365 offers comprehensive coverage of Microsoft 365 productivity data including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft 365 Groups.

How much data is stored and how long can I keep it?

There is no limit to how much Microsoft 365 data is backed up in Backup for Microsoft 365, nor is there a time limit on how long it is retained, provided you maintain an active subscription.

How are email backup and archiving different?

Backup and archiving perform separate functions for different reasons, but they are complementary, and the capabilities of each one can help the other work more effectively. Backup is for recovery, archiving is for discovery.

Backup stores multiple copies that are each associated with a specific revision of data, and it provides recovery back to a known good state from a specific point of time. A backup enables recovery from a situation where data has been lost, corrupted or becomes inaccessible, so it's primarily a safeguard to facilitate data recovery.

Archiving preserves a single copy in secure immutable storage for a finite time period and provides ongoing end user access to historical business information. An archive enables compliance with legal and business data retention policies, as well as supporting eDiscovery.

Finally, email archiving covers business email but not other Microsoft 365 files and projects. Backup for Microsoft 365 preserves and recovers mailboxes, but it also covers other Microsoft 365 data, including Teams projects, OneDrive storage and SharePoint sites and libraries.