Backup Exec 25 Administrator's Guide

To back up Microsoft 365 servers

1. On the Backup and Restore tab, select a Microsoft 365 tenant from the list of servers.
2. Do one of the following:

   • In the Backups group at the top of the screen, click Backup > Create Microsoft 365 Backup.

   • On the Backup and Restore tab, in the Groups pane, right-click the server group that you want to back up and click Backup > Create Microsoft 365 Backup.

3. On the Backup Definition Properties dialog box, in the Selections box, click Edit to add or remove resources from the backup selection list.
4. On the Backup Selections dialog box select the type of data to be backed up.

   User	You can select individual users and then select the type of data you want to back up. Mailbox Archive Mailbox OneDrive User Site You can select all users, individual users, or use the search to filter for a specific user.
   Group	You can select a group and then select the type of data you want to back up. Group Mailbox Group Files User Mailbox User Archive Mailbox User OneDrive Group Site User Site Depending on the type of data that you select, data for all the users in the selected group are backed up. You can select all groups, individual groups, or use the search to filter for a specific group.
   Public Folders	You cannot select individual Public folders during backup. All the available Public folders are backed up. You can select individual items to restore as the list of public folders is available from the Restore Wizard. Ensure that the UPN has administrative access to the entire folder hierarchy, because backup runs only for the folders that have access to the hierarchy. The restore fails if the User Principal Name (UPN) provided during tenant configuration does not have administrative access to the public folders.
   Sites	You can select the SharePoint site collections that you want to back up. You can select all site collections or use the search to filter for a site.
   Teams	You can select the teams and then select the type of data that you want to back up. Channel Posts Teams Site and Private Channels Site Teams Data and Settings Teams Data and Settings are always backed up if you select any or both the Channel Posts and Teams Site options. Depending on the type of data that you select, data for the selected teams is backed up. You can select all teams, individual teams, or use the search to filter for teams.

   Note:

   If you select a user and then select a group where the same user is part of the group, the user data is backed up only once.

   Note:

   If you exclude some mailboxes in the Users tab for a backup and if those users are part of a selected group in the Group tab, then data of the excluded mailboxes is not backed up.

5. On the Backup Selections dialog box do any or both of the following:

   Select the users or items manually

   Select the check boxes corresponding to the users or items for which you want to back up the data.

   Click Apply Filters

   In Filter Configuration, click Insert. Select the filter, add the keywords, and click OK. You can add multiple filters. The filters that you added are displayed in Selection Filters. You can select a filter and click Remove to delete the filter or click Clear All to remove all filters. The filters with the selected users or items are displayed in Backup Selections. The Select all check box is disabled after you use filter option. You cannot apply filters and select all items at the same time. Use the sorting buttons to move your selection to the beginning or end of the list. Even if you use the Apply Filters option, any users or items that you select manually always appear on top of the list.

6. Click Selection Summary to view your backup selection.
7. Click OK.
8. On the Backup Definition Properties dialog box, in the Backup box, click Edit.
9. On the Backup Options dialog box, in the left pane, select Schedule, and then select the schedule for this job.

   By default, two templates are available, Forever Incremental and Consolidate Full. You can also add a custom full template.

   For more information about Forever Incremental backups, refer to the following information.

   See “Forever Incremental Backup”.

10. On the Backup Options dialog box, in the left pane, select Microsoft 365, and then select the required parallel streams or workload-specific settings for the backup.

    See Configuring parallel streams and job settings for Microsoft 365.

11. On the Backup Options dialog box, click any of the optional settings in the left pane that you want to set for this job.
12. Click OK.
13. (Optional) On the Backup Definition Properties dialog box, you can add stages to this backup definition to duplicate your Microsoft 365 data to any supported storage device.
14. Click OK.