Altaro Office 365 Backup New Features Added

Altaro Office 365 Backup is a solution for an organization willing to protect their Office 365 data. As you know, Microsoft does not offer any kind of restore possibility in case you lose your data. It's your responsibility to have backups and the possibility to restore.

Altaro has introduced the Office 365 Backup a few months back. Office 365 mailbox backups are automatically saved to Altaro’s secure cloud backup location hosted on Microsoft Azure Infrastructure. The backups run several times per day. (Max 4 times per day).

The cost for storage of backups is included in the offer, so you can’t use your own storage if you already have a storage account at Microsoft, Google or Amazon.

Altaro's solution will backup your Office 365 data (Outlook, files in your SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business) to Azure infrastructure provided by Altaro. So you don't have have a separate Azure account for that. It is a “point-in-time” restoration so you can have long-term retention for SharePoint Online and One Drive for Business with a possibility to easily restore your files from any date you want.

Depending on the failure you'd be facing, if anything goes wrong with the underlying infrastructure at Microsoft, they basically do not guarantee, that you can restore your data. It's your own responsibility. Imagine that they have a hardware failure with data corruption, so they must reinstall your organization from scratch. They don't have backups so they'll actually provide you with a “clean” state and it's up to you to restore (if you have backups).

Altaro Office 365 Backup Features:

• Mailbox – the whole mailbox is restored. You can restore to the same location or you can export as PST and open locally to extract just the item you want.
• Granular E-mail restores – You can select an item, and restore only that.
• File-level restore of OneDrive for Business – restore files or folders from any point in time.
• SharePoint Online Restore – individual item restore or a full restore.
• Unlimited retention period – the backups are retained during the lifetime of the mailbox and the data are kept forever. If you stop the subscription, the data are deleted.
• Encryption – backup data is protected by AES 256-bit encryption at rest. The authentication user interaction (login, setting changes, subscription management and accessing backed up data) works over TLS encrypted channel.
• Pricing per mailbox – You can have a case where you have a single mailbox used by multiple users. In this case, you pay just a single mailbox.

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How to test?

Simply sign up and connect an Office 365 account. Backups are taken automatically and saved to Altaro’s Azure infrastructure. You have 30 days trial you can test.

Altaro Office 365 Backup is one of the cost-effective backup solutions out there. Here is a few FAQ from their website.