How to backup a Family OneDrive (365)
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Hi,
We have a family subscription to OneDrive and use a variety of desktops, laptops etc. All Windows based.
What is the best way to provide a separate backup of this data? Is there a non-microsoft subscription service that can back up all family 365 accounts?
Or do I just get an iDrive service to cover the various computers?
I'm not adverse to periodic backups to an external drive if needed but this is a bit of a faff. No NAS solutions as I want something off site.
Any ideas? My google foo has failed me.
We have a family subscription to OneDrive and use a variety of desktops, laptops etc. All Windows based.
What is the best way to provide a separate backup of this data? Is there a non-microsoft subscription service that can back up all family 365 accounts?
Or do I just get an iDrive service to cover the various computers?
I'm not adverse to periodic backups to an external drive if needed but this is a bit of a faff. No NAS solutions as I want something off site.
Any ideas? My google foo has failed me.
The Family bit is only licensing really. In practice it's largely 6 separate accounts each with their own logins etc. You will need to back up each One Drive individually.
The only easy way around that would be if you setup a family email address and gave that a license and then set it up so everyone has read/write access on One Drive.
But it's not really what MS intended, so it's likely more hassle than it's worth.
They're missing a trick by not rolling out a cut-down sharepoint type service, which would cover this.
The only easy way around that would be if you setup a family email address and gave that a license and then set it up so everyone has read/write access on One Drive.
But it's not really what MS intended, so it's likely more hassle than it's worth.
They're missing a trick by not rolling out a cut-down sharepoint type service, which would cover this.
Given that the data is on each of the respective machines and in one drive you already have an offsite copy of the data.
So if you want automation you could buy a synology nas which has a app to do 365 backups natively.
If you’re adamant you need an off site too then you can either setup scheduled backups of the nas to backblaze or another archive platform
Or buy a couple of usb hdd’s and backup and rotate them offsite.
Onedrive does have a level of built-in backup
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/restore...
https://www.ucmadscientist.com/backing-up-my-cloud...
There's a good point that if you have the Synology performing a one-way sync of Onedrive, it's going to pickup changes (good and bad) and possibly make your "backup" not as good as you'd hope/need.
Acronis can backup Onedrive to their cloud but the £60/year subscription for 1 PC is only 500GB
https://www.acronis.com/en-gb/articles/onedrive-ba...
https://www.acronis.com/en-gb/products/true-image/...
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/restore...
Microsoft said:
Files Restore helps Microsoft 365 subscribers undo all the actions that occurred on both files and folders within the last 30 days.
There's more info on the two Synology apps which can sync / backup Onedrive here:https://www.ucmadscientist.com/backing-up-my-cloud...
There's a good point that if you have the Synology performing a one-way sync of Onedrive, it's going to pickup changes (good and bad) and possibly make your "backup" not as good as you'd hope/need.
Acronis can backup Onedrive to their cloud but the £60/year subscription for 1 PC is only 500GB
https://www.acronis.com/en-gb/articles/onedrive-ba...
https://www.acronis.com/en-gb/products/true-image/...
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