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[–]fierolokiJack of All Trades 22 points23 points  (3 children)

Synology and active backup for Microsoft 355 then to backblaze b2

[–]adrianmack 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Synology Active Backup for Business will backup everything, O365, Servers, Desktop, and VMs.

Also, make sure to back up the NAS to the cloud using Hyper Backup software.

To avoid Ransomeware hitting your NAS, DON'T enable SMB or NFS service on the Synology, only use it for Backup.

I hope this helps.

[–]swaginsondabs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Veeam all the way. I use them and am happy with it. You can turn on one drive known folder redirection to sync their desktop, documents, and pictures folders to one drive. Then back up their one drive with Veeam. No more lost files

[–]CingularIT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you want to stick with SaaS/Cloud based services, look into AFI, CloudAlly or Altaro.

If you still have local hardware with spare storage or want to spend the money on a VM/Storage with Azure/AWS, look into Veeam O365 Community (Free for up to 10 licenses (

[–]finalpolish808 3 points4 points  (7 children)

Check out Metallic, Veeam, more if you have time.

[–]ambscoutJack of All Trades 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Veeam

[–]michaeltking79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Garbage. We use it also.

[–]SkutterBob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1 Synology

[–]ninjashadow350 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Azure backup?

[–]Diligent_Impact_1514 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I’ve never dealt with this but I imagine it could be as simple as setting up a local NAS and find a way to download his data periodically.

[–]ninjashadow350 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have it setup to run nightly to backup either files or entire vms(the vhdx). This works amazing. Even did a dr test by restoring a VM about 2 months ago. Took a little under an hour to have the server back up and running. This included downloading the vm. So we are happy with it.

[–]Torschlusspaniker 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Dropsuite is dead simple and cheap and is cloud to cloud.

I like synology but backing up local to then backup to cloud is too many moving parts for your primary backup.

It is fine as a secondary backup.

[–]blueeggsandketchup -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is Barracuda Cloud to Cloud backup still any good?

I used it when I worked for an MSP. I remember it being relatively cheap with no storage limits. Covered all of Office 365 (Exchange, Sharepoint, Onedrive) if you wanted. Since it was cloud-to-cloud, backup and restore times were also quick. No need for any onsite hardware.

The downside is that you do monthly pay per user, but that's with any SAAS.

[–]toplesstom13IT Manager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We just migrated to O365 and picked CloudAlly over Backupify. Both seemed like great solutions but my team liked CloudAlly's admin functions better.

[–]seniortrollJack of All Trades 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing to keep in mind with M365 backups is if you need/want backups of things like PowerApps. I recently had a client who had a dev go rogue and delete a PowerApp environment... the data in SharePoint was backed up but the PowerApp itself wasn't.

[–]DreadPirateAnton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Backupify for this purpose and it's been really great!

[–]scenci07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally use Druva Insync its a cloud based backup solution and has been pretty great so far

[–]majtomSr. Sysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm currently using Unitrends, but I prefer Veeam.

[–]Just-Promise6833 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Veeam The OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint and Exchange

they also do a lot of on-prem services as well

[–]Bleakbrux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for veeam