that leads to data loss. Remember, your backup application
should be able to help you put things back to the way that they
were, as quickly as possible. Excess complexity can cause the
recovery process to be slow and error prone.
Finally, make sure that the product that you choose is storage
agnostic and designed to work in hybrid environments. Ideally,
the software should make almost no distinction between your
servers running on premises, and the resources that you are
protecting in the Microsoft 365 cloud, nor should it care what
type of storage the data is physically residing on. You should be
able to use the same interface and techniques to back up both
environments, and you should be able to restore data from
one environment to the other environment if necessary.
The Big Takeaways
Microsoft Teams is a little bit different from most applications,
because its data is located in a bunch of different places. While
it's easy to assume that Teams data is stored in a SQL database
somewhere, the data is actually scattered across a variety of
Microsoft 365 applications. Therefore, if you want to back up
Teams, you have to back up the different components in which
it is stored (i.e. Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive) and the
backup intelligence and metadata to connect the dots
Backing up Microsoft 365 is important. Microsoft does not back
it up for you. It's up to you to protect your Teams data and the
data associated with other Microsoft 365 applications. Of
course, to do that you are going to need a reliable Microsoft
365 backup application, and most importantly, one that
includes purpose-built support for Teams.
