A little over a month ago, I authored a post discussing the virtues of having a robust Microsoft Office 365 business continuity story, outlining 3 crucial things to not forget… Namely:
Mailbox and singular mail restore – Common scenario in restoring accidentally deleted emails.
Teams Backup – Goes without saying, Teams holds information (files, chat, groups etc) for the modern-day workforce. This allows centralised collaboration – the cool things like working on documents at the same time in real-time with your co-workers.
Recovery to is as important as recovery from – While the two items above are “use case scenarios” of which happen far too regularly, this particular item
Then this happened, Microsoft Teams – that central hub that connects over 270 million people globally, the core platform of which many businesses, schools, government entities, health providers and even technology providers use to collaborate, meet, share and operate on was suddenly inaccessible. The working world grinded to a halt..
While this seems like a perfect opportunity for backup vendors to shout “I told you so”, we do need to revisit why backup is STILL needed when moving data into the public cloud – at the end of the day, its just someone else’s data centre.
One of the biggest blessings (and curses in times of outages) is that Teams allows you to easily create, share, and work on files with co-workers – presentations, word documents, spreadsheets – for this collaboration to happen – these files are typically stored within the team’s application (backhanded by Sharepoint and one drive). So suddenly, that important presentation you and your team were preparing for is not inaccessible.
Not ideal.
Backups are still needed in the cloud – outages happen and even more important (to reiterate the other point in the preceding blog post). Granular restoration is also a blessing.
With BDRSuite for Office 365 – Having the ability to recover those Microsoft Teams-based files to another location (think Recovery to is as important as recovery from!!) when you can’t access them because of an outage in the cloud allows the modern-day worker to keep doing that – working on the important presentations, or spreadsheets without having the inconvenience of waiting or losing time.
Its business critical to have it…
