Backups of SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams
A centralized management interface displaying comprehensive information: Real-time and historical protection of backup services, storage consumption, as well as data transmission history
Easy backup task management and auto-detection of newly created accounts and sites
Flexible backups with scheduled, manual, and continuous backup modes, as well as retention policies with unlimited recovery points
Storage efficiency optimized via single-instancing technology and block-level deduplication
Specifications
Supports plans for Microsoft 365 Business, Enterprise, Education, and Exchange Online
Supports endpoints for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet
Backup
Provides backups of various Microsoft services:
OneDrive for Business: Files, file sharing permissions, and corresponding metadata, such as the last modified time stored on OneDrive for Business
Exchange Online: Data stored on Mail along with folders, folder structures, and attachments, Contacts and Calendar along with their attachments
SharePoint Online: Document libraries and lists stored on Sites and My Sites
Allows all or selected users within a tenant to be backed up in a task
Supports multi-tenancy
Supported backup policies: Scheduled, manual, and continuous backup modes
Supported retention policy: Keeps versions for a user-defined period or forever
Storage efficiency
Single instancing: Supports files stored in OneDrive, mail attachments, archived mail attachments, calendar attachments, and sites. Files containing identical content will only be transferred once and stored on your Synology NAS with only one copy
Block-level deduplication: Supports files stored in Btrfs volumes with the exception of encrypted shared folders to be deduplicated with their previous versions
Support list:
Single instancing
Block-level deduplication
Drive
O
O
Mail/Archive mailbox
Attachment only
X
Contacts
X
X
Calendar
Attachment only
X
Site
Document library and attachment only
Document library and attachment only
Management
A centralized management interface displaying comprehensive information: Real-time and historical protection of backup services, storage consumption, as well as data transmission history
Account discovery for OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online: Allows newly added users using these Microsoft 365 services to be automatically detected and selected for backups
Site discovery for Sites or My Sites: Allows newly created Sites and My Sites on Microsoft 365 to be automatically detected and selected for backups
Supports deleting backup data of services used by each user from Synology NAS
Sends notifications when a backup task is canceled, failed, completed, or partially completed, and when there is insufficient space available for the backup
Provides logs for backup, restoration, account discovery, and setting changes
Supports multi-factor authentication
Recommended models
To learn which Synology NAS might be suitable for your backup scenarios, you might refer to this article
Limitations
Tasks deleted in versions earlier than 2.2.1 cannot be relinked
Data will not be backed up by Active Backup for Microsoft 365 under the following circumstances:
Drive
The file/folder name or path contains "#SynoVersionRepo", "#SynoRepo", or "#SynoVersions"
The file/folder path on DSM is longer than 4,016 characters
The name of any file or folder in the destination shared folder exceeds 255 characters
The name of any file or folder in the encrypted destination shared folder exceeds 143 characters
Files and folders stored in Shared with me
Mail
Public folder mailboxes and on-premises Exchange mailboxes (User mailboxes, shared mailboxes, archive mailboxes, resource mailboxes, and site mailboxes can be backed up)
Reference attachments (links to a folder or a file on OneDrive for Business cloud drives, or other supported storage locations, attached to an event, message, Outlook task, or post)
Mails in the Deleted folder when there are contacts or calendars within the folder
Contacts
All contacts other than Your contacts (for example, folder structures, Groups, and Directory)
Contacts in the Deleted folder
Contact lists in Outlook People page
Calendar
Calendar events earlier than 1970/01/01 or after 2070/01/01
Calendar folder structures (All calendars will be shown under the All Calendar folder)
Calendars in the Deleted folder
Calendar events shared from other calendars
Site
Permission settings of SharePoint sites (Those of document libraries can be backed up)
Unsearchable SharePoint sites (Refer to this article to make sites searchable)
Two types of columns: "Lookup" and "Person or Group"
Survey Options for surveys
The non-default languages of some user's interface elements in a SharePoint site, including titles and descriptions of sites, lists, and columns
The following settings of lists and document libraries:
Document Version History (document library only)
Item Version History (list only)
Document Template (document library only)
Opening Documents in the Browser (document library only)
Custom Send to Destination (document library only)
Site Assets Library (document library only)
Dialogs
Automatic Index Management
Validation Settings
Audience Targeting Settings
Rating Settings
RSS Settings
Content Type
Recovery Portal
Features
Facilitates the recovery process by restoring or exporting a single mail, file, contact, calendar, document library, and list instead of an entire backup task
Filters and previews the backup data via keyword search (mail attachments included)
Provides self-service restoration to reduce IT burden
Allows Microsoft Azure AD users to sign in with their Microsoft 365 credentials
Specifications
User privileges
All backup users can sign in to Active Backup for Microsoft 365 Portal
Users with admin privileges can restore or download all users' backup data
Users without admin privileges can only restore or download their own backup data
Data restoration
Drive: Supports restoring multiple files or folders in a directory at a time and restoring file sharing permissions
Mail: Supports restoring multiple mails, a single mail folder, or an account's entire mailbox
Contacts: Supports restoring multiple contacts at a time
Calendar: Supports restoring multiple calendar events at a time
Site: Supports restoring multiple document libraries or lists at a time and restoring file sharing permissions in document libraries
Data export
Drive: Supports exporting a single file or folder at a time
Mail: Supports exporting multiple mails in an .eml file or multiple attachments at a time
Contacts: Supports exporting multiple contacts in a .csv file at a time
Calendar: Supports exporting multiple calendars events in an .ics file at a time
Site: Supports exporting multiple document libraries at a time
Backup data preview
Mail: Supports previewing the content of emails with attachments
Contacts: Supports previewing a contact's information
Content search
Mail: Supports filtering emails by sender, receiver, subject, keyword, date, and content within attachments. Supported attachment file types are as follows:
.page/.key/.numbers
.rtf
Microsoft Office format (e.g., .docx/.doc,.pptx/.ppt), except the Microsoft Excel file format (.xlsx/.xls)
Text files (e.g., .cpp, .c, .txt)
.epub
.lit
.mobi/.azw3/.pdb/.prc
.pdf
.rar
.chm
.slk/.gnumeric
.eml/.msg
.7z/.bz2/.gz/.zip/.tgz/.tbz/.tar
Drive: Supports filtering files by filename
Contacts: Supports filtering contacts by email address
Calendar: Supports filtering calendar events by organizer, title, and location
Site: Supports filtering document libraries, lists, or files by title, description, or content
Limitations
Cross-tenant restoration is not supported
The following variables are not supported for content search: