Despite Office 365 is a cloud platform managed by Microsoft, it doesn't mean your data are safe and you need an efficient strategy to backup and recover Office 365 items.
Without a good protection plan, retention policies, accidental or malicious deletion put at risk the integrity of your Office 365 data.
Starting from version 9.2, Nakivo Backup & Replication provides the capability to protect your Office 365 environment and you need to configure the system accordingly to protect your data.
Blog Series
Nakivo: backup and recover Office 365 items - pt.1
Nakivo: backup and recover Office 365 items - pt.2
Backup and recover Office 365
Before configuring the backup job, you need first to configure Nakivo Backup & Replication to connect your Office 365 environment.
To protect data stored in Office 365, you need to configure the following:
- Add Office 365 to Nakivo inventory
- Configure Office 365 backup repository
- Create a backup job
Azure permissions
To backup and restore items in Office 365, Nakivo Backup & Replication requires some specific permissions configured in Azure. This is the list of the minimum permissions required:
Add Office 365 to Nakivo inventory
First step is to add Office 365 to the Nakivo inventory.
From Nakivo Dashboard access the Settings area and select Inventory. Click Add New.
Select SaaS as Platform. Click Next.
Enter a Display name and specify Services to protect. With Nakivo you can protect the following Office 365 services:
- Exchange Online
- OneDrive for Business
- SharePoint Online
Select Automatically register a new AD application option to let Nakivo register the application in Azure automatically configuring also all the required permissions.
Enter the Application Name, copy the displayed Code and click on the https://microsoft.com/devicelogin link.
Paste the previously copied code and click Next.
Specify the credentials of the Administrator account of your Azure tenant.
Click Continue to validate the entered credentials.
Once the sign in operation has completed, close the windows.
If the Nakivo account is authenticated successfully with the Azure tenant Administrator, click Finish.
The Office 365 is being added to the Nakivo inventory.
After few seconds, the Office 365 item has been created successfully.
Checking the Azure configuration, inside the App registrations area, you can now see the new registered application with the name specified during the previous step.
Nakivo configured also all required permissions automatically.
Create the Nakivo repository
To store Office 365 items with Nakivo, you need to create a specific repository.
From the Dashboard access the Settings area and go to Repositories section. Click Add Backup Repository and select Create a new backup repository.
Select SaaS as repository type then click Next.
Enter the repository Name, select the Assigned transporter and the Path to the local folder. Click Next when done.
Click Finish to save the configuration.
The Office 365 repository has been created successfully.
Once Nakivo Backup & Replication has been configured, to protect Office 365 environment we need to configure the appropriate Backup Job.
Part 2 will cover the configuration of backup and recover jobs for your Office 365 environment.
