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
Provides backups for the following plans: Microsoft 365 Business, Enterprise, Education, and Exchange Online
Supports endpoints of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet
Backup
Supports backups of various Microsoft services:
OneDrive for Business: Files, sharing permissions, and corresponding metadata, such as the last modified time
Exchange Online: Mails, attachments, and folder structures; contacts and calendars along with their attachments
SharePoint Online: Document libraries and lists of sites and personal sites
Microsoft Teams: Posts in original message formats, emojis, stickers, and settings such as member and guest permissions
Supports backing up all or selected users within a tenant by tasks
Supports backing up multiple tenants
Supported backup policies: Scheduled, manual, and continuous backup modes
Supported retention policies: Keep versions for a specified period or forever
Storage efficiency
Single instancing: Files containing identical content will be transferred only once and stored on your Synology NAS with only one copy
Block-level deduplication: Files stored in Btrfs volumes (except encrypted shared folders) will be deduplicated according to the 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
Team
X
X
Management
A centralized console displaying comprehensive information: Real-time and historical backups of each service, storage consumption, as well as data transmission history
Account discovery for OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online: New accounts will be automatically selected for backups
Site discovery for SharePoint: New sites and personal sites will be automatically selected for backups
Team discovery for Microsoft Teams: New teams will be automatically selected for backups
Supports batch deletion of backup data stored in Synology NAS
Sends notifications when a backup completes, fails, or is canceled, and when there is insufficient space available for backup data
Provides logs for backups, restorations, account discovery, and setting changes
Tasks deleted in versions earlier than 2.2.1 cannot be relinked
Some objects are not backup-compatible or will not be backed up under certain circumstances:
Drive
Files and folders with names or paths that contain "#SynoVersionRepo", "#SynoRepo", or "#SynoVersions"
Files and folders with DSM paths longer than 4,016 characters
Files and folders with names that exceed 255 characters on the backup destination
Files and folders with names that exceed 143 characters on an encrypted backup destination
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 folders or files on OneDrive for Business or other supported storage locations. These are often attached to events, messages, Outlook tasks, or posts
Mails in the "Deleted folder" when there are any contacts or calendars within the folder
Notes
Contacts
All contacts other than "Your contacts" (For example: folder structures, "Groups", and "Directory")
Contact lists in Outlook "People"
Contacts in the "Deleted folder"
Calendar
Calendar events earlier than 1970/01/01 or after 2070/01/01
Folder structures (All calendars will be shown under the "All Calendar")
Calendars in the "Deleted folder"
Calendar events shared from other calendars
Site
Permission settings of SharePoint sites, while those of document libraries can be backed up
Two types of columns: "Lookup" and "Person or Group"
"Survey Options" for surveys
User interface elements in a non-default language on SharePoint sites, 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
Team
Teams in Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet
1-on-1 chat
Private channel settings
The following settings of public teams and channels:
Team pictures
Team codes
Tags
Apps that are not stored in SharePoint (e.g., Survey)
Analytics
Recovery Portal
Features
Facilitates the recovery process by restoring or exporting single mails, files, contacts, calendars, document libraries, lists, and team posts instead of entire backup tasks
Supports filtering and previewing backup data via keyword search
Provides self-service restoration to reduce IT burden
Allows Microsoft Azure AD users to sign in using their Microsoft 365 credentials
Specifications
User privileges
End 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 selected files or folders in a directory along with sharing permissions
Mail: Supports restoring selected mails, single mail folders, or entire mailboxes
Site: Supports restoring selected document libraries and lists along with document library sharing permissions
Team: Supports restoring selected posts and team/channel members along with their permissions. Multiple posts across channels can be restored in the HTML format
Data export
Drive: Supports exporting single files or folders
Mail: Supports exporting selected mails into an EML file or exporting attachments
Contacts: Supports exporting selected contacts into a CSV file
Calendar: Supports exporting selected calendars events into an ICS file