“Microsoft 365 Backup - Veeam” 🎙 – The Intrazone podcast (2024)

FAQs

What are the requirements for Veeam Backup for Office 365? ›

Memory: 16 GB RAM minimum. Additional RAM and CPU resources improve backup, restore and search performance. Host with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 also requires a minimum size of 16 GB of RAM for VMs with dynamic memory allocation.

Cloud-to-cloud storage

Diversifying data storage is the thing that is often looked for by businesses. Cloud-to-cloud storage is the way to fully protect your Microsoft 365 data outside of the Microsoft public cloud. Cloud-to-cloud is considered to be a more advanced Microsoft 365 backup practice.

Licensing in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is based on user accounts whose data you back up. Each protected user account consumes one Veeam license unit. The Veeam license units are consumed by the following objects included to a user account: Microsoft Exchange Online and on-premises Microsoft Exchange mailboxes.

One of the key reasons organizations need to backup their Microsoft 365 data is to protect against data loss. Despite the robust security measures in place by Microsoft, data loss can still occur due to a variety of factors such as human error, malicious attacks, or natural disasters.

Veeam provides deployment, management, and delivery options, giving you the freedom to use your preferred Microsoft 365 backup strategy.

Veeam Backup & Replication creates an active full backup only once a day on which active full backup is scheduled (unless you create a full backup manually). If you run the backup job again on the same day, Veeam Backup & Replication will perform incremental backup in a regular manner.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Community Edition provides FREE backup and recovery of Office 365 Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams data. This eliminates the risk of losing access and control over your Office 365 data.

Microsoft 365 backups run completely automatically, so you don't have to worry about anyone remembering to run a backup. If you need to recover a file, or a batch of files, you simply raise a support ticket and one of our in-house engineers will take care of it.

Veeam Backup Solutions has the best user interface to configure and manage all physical virtual server backups. Easy to deploy managed servers and required very minimal server resources. The immutable backup option has freed us from worries from ransomware.

How many backups does Veeam keep? ›

By default, Veeam Backup & Replication keeps backup files created for 7 latest restore points. After this number is exceeded, Veeam Backup & Replication removes the earliest restore points from the backup chain.

Veam agent for Windows is used for local backups. You can backup a server/desktop to a external drive or a NAS. Veam Backup and Replication is the enterprise solution. Mainly used to backup Servers/Desktops and it can handle replication, retention periods etc.

We recommend using a cloud-based backup solution. With cloud-based backups: Your data is safely stored in the cloud.

Veeam Backup & Replication delivers certain key functionalities. These include data availability, fast and reliable backups, flexibility and scalability, and a user-friendly interface. While all these are important, Veeam's focus on data availability is paramount.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is a comprehensive solution that allows you to back up and restore data of your Microsoft 365 organizations, including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams data, as well as data of on-premises Microsoft Exchange and on-premises ...

Prerequisite Teams Backup is mentioned in the Veeam User Guide that a Microsoft 365 license or a Teams Exploratory experience license is required: "The minimum sufficient license is Microsoft Teams Exploratory experience.

In the user settings, click Manage multi-factor authentication, select the user from the list, click Enable and confirm the action in the pop-up window. Next, select the user again and click Enforce to allow the user create app passwords for non-browser applications, such as Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365.