CrashPlan for SaaS

Microsoft 365 Edition

Comprehensive backup, recovery, and data management for your business-critical Microsoft 365 apps, including Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. CrashPlan provides reliable and secure data protection and seamless integration with Microsoft technologies.

Reliable Backup for Microsoft 365

Why Backup Microsoft 365 Data?

Microsoft offers an impressive suite of powerful services, but a comprehensive backup of your data is not one of them. According to Microsoft’s own Shared Responsibility Model, they recommend that each customer have a dedicated backup and recovery solution in place to help ensure business continuity and data resilience. That’s why CrashPlan partners with Microsoft to enable organizations to quickly and easily backup and recover large amounts of Microsoft 365 data.

Explore Microsoft 365 Backup Solutions

Eliminate the risk of losing access and control over your Microsoft 365 data, including Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, so your data is always protected and accessible.

Exchange Online

Streamline work with end-user self-serve email recovery and native search for seamless eDiscovery investigations.

SharePoint

Automatically backup your SharePoint data and ensure it is safely stored and easily recoverable.

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OneDrive

Achieve regulatory compliance, protect against ransomware, and defend against insider threats or simple human error.

Microsoft Teams

Protect your meeting recordings, files, and collaboration data, ensuring seamless recovery and uninterrupted productivity.

Microsoft 365 Backup Storage

Add Microsoft’s lightning-fast disaster recovery option, Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, to your data resiliency arsenal. This seamless integration allows you to recover all your Microsoft 365 assets at scale in a matter of minutes at the point-in-time just before a catastrophic event like ransomware. Meet aggressive RTOs and RPOs without breaking a sweat.

Microsoft 365 Backup Storage is available on its own, or you can combine it with CrashPlan for Microsoft 365’s powerful search and granular self-service restore for a multi-layered approach. Ensure you’re always prepared for data loss incidents of any magnitude.

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FAQ’s

1. Does Microsoft 365 back up my data?

Not in the traditional sense. Microsoft 365 provides data replication and short-term retention to guard against infrastructure failures and accidental deletion. However, it does not offer comprehensive backup and user-friendly restore capabilities with customizable retention. Unprotected Microsoft 365 data is vulnerable to malicious deletion, ransomware, and user error.

2. What is Microsoft 365’s native retention policy, and how does it compare to a true backup?

Microsoft 365’s retention settings are designed for short-term data management, not long-term, comprehensive backup. Microsoft typically retains data for 30 days, after which it moves to a second-stage recycle bin, where it is recoverable only by an administrator for 93 days. This places a burden on both end-users and administrators when deleted data is required after 30 days. A true backup solution will enable you to customize your retention policies according to your organization’s specific legal and operational requirements.

3. Why should I back up my Microsoft 365 data with CrashPlan?

CrashPlan adds a critical layer of protection beyond Microsoft’s native functionality. It provides continuous, independent backups with customizable retention policies, self-service recovery, powerful legal hold and ediscovery features, and an array of data storage locations to fit your regulatory and data residence requirements. CrashPlan saves you storage costs by performing data compression and by incrementally copying only new or updated data. Additionally, CrashPlan provides a zero-cost storage option that securely utilizes the OneDrive space included with your Microsoft 365 subscription.

4. How does CrashPlan back up Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams?

CrashPlan connects to Microsoft 365 via a secure API and performs automated, encrypted backups of each user’s data. It captures snapshots independently of Microsoft’s retention limits, allowing for flexible protection that meets your organization’s unique Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs). CrashPlan also integrates with Microsoft’s large-scale recovery API, Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, for rapid ransomware recovery.

5. Can I perform point-in-time restores?

It’s easy to restore data from a specific point in time using CrashPlan. Customizable backup frequency settings enable you to align with your Recovery Point Objectives. The intuitive self-serve interface enables users to find and restore the exact version they need in the event of accidental deletion, data corruption, or simply to reference previous versions of their work. If ransomware hits, users can restore their data from the point in time just before the attack.

6. Is my Office 365 backup data secure with CrashPlan?

Yes, CrashPlan’s platform is built with zero-trust principles at its core. Data is encrypted end-to-end (both in transit and at rest) utilizing AES-256 and TLS encryption protocols, and remains immutable within the storage destination. Additionally, customizable role-based access controls enable you to manage  precisely who requires what level of access to the backups.

7. Does CrashPlan’s Microsoft 365 backup solution help with compliance regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2?

CrashPlan helps meet regulatory requirements by ensuring secure, encrypted backups with customizable retention policies and audit logs that record backup and restore activity. CrashPlan holds up-to-date certifications in SOC 2, ISO 27001, and a comprehensive array of other security frameworks—and can provide a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for HIPAA compliance. Learn more about our commitment to security, privacy, and compliance.

8. How is pricing determined for Microsoft 365 backup?

CrashPlan’s Microsoft 365 backup solution is priced per user. Each user can back up their Exchange Online, OneDrive, Sharepoint, and Teams data under one license. CrashPlan offers bulk licensing discounts. Contact our sales team to get a customized quote.

Time to back it up.

Data resilience starts with a solid backup plan.