Exclude all "personal" OneDrive from backup

[hbilke]

Howdy out there!

a customer wants to back up almost all O365 data - besides the personal onedrive(s). And preferably as default setting - not selecting the user and then deselect the OneDrive.
Is this possible at all?

hRy

[Mildur]

It is recommended to create a backup repo per each data type:
- Exchange
- Sharepoint + Teams
- OneDrive

After you have the backup repos, create backup Jobs for each data type and target it to the dedicated Backup Repo.
If you want to exclude OneDrive, don't create a backup repo and backup job for the OneDrive Data.

I have written a post about choosing a specific data type for each job:
- Backup entire Organization with the choosen data Type
post426122.html#p426122

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If you have already created a backup job, you can edit it to backup everything else except OneDrive.
Add the entire organization as the source and remove the option "OneDrive" it in this step:

[hbilke]

Hi Mildur,

I'll create three separate repos as
a) path on one storage volume
or better
b) one volume per repo?

Selecting via datatype "User": I only see the possibility to select very single user - or am I missing something? Maybe start from scratch?

The customer already has a repo and setup "complete organization".

Cheers
hRy

[hbilke]

Additional Q:

there are already separate jobs but they are pointing to the same path on the repo-volume.
Should or must there be different paths?

hRy

[Mildur]

If you create a new Backup Job or edit a new backup job, make sure to add "organization" in this step:


And remove OneDrive from this selection:


This way, every new user and new sharepoint Site is automatically in the backup.

here are already separate jobs but they are pointing to the same path on the repo-volume.
Should or must there be different paths?

If you want to use different backup repos, each repo should use it's own path.
In my environment, we have one single large disk for multiple organizations.
- D:\REPO\ORG1\EXO
- D:\REPO\ORG1\SPO
- D:\REPO\ORG1\ODB

If I could rebuild it, I would create a vmdk per each organisations for data separation.
But it is not necessary for small deployments.
I don't have any experience with large deployments how it's done there.