[Features request] SharePoint filter backup

[tbeekmans]

Backup SharePoint option, option Add Objects to backup, add select by filter what needs to be backup.
This filter could contain a certain string, fir example backup all sites if the name contains, <org>.

We're in a OF365 tenant with other regions of our company, and you don't want to backup all sites, only you own sites.

[Polina]

Hi Tom,

Filtering by name is already available in the wizard:


Could you please specify what functionality exactly are you missing?

Thanks!

[tbeekmans]

Yes I know, however I want to set this dedicated, if new site is created in Office 365, it should be automatically added in the backup, I don't want to search manually and save the job, otherwise I have to check manually every time..

[nielsengelen]

Would a PowerShell as a workaround be a solution for now?

[Polina]

So, it looks more like backup management automation through using some sort of "O365 security groups" but for sites instead of users, right? )
Or, alternatively, this could be an ability to select/filter sites by their location, correct?

[tbeekmans]

Not location or group, just if the name contains a certain string it should be automatically added to the backup, would be nice to have it in the GUI.

[tbeekmans]

Hi Niels,

Do you have powershell script example, I could test if it is useful?

[nielsengelen]

Tom, I don't have a script identical like your request but in VBO v2, you couldn't exclude personal sites from the checkbox so I made a script for it (https://github.com/nielsengelen/veeam-p ... tSites.ps1). I will see to modify this to work as your idea and let you know.

[nielsengelen]

@tbeekmans, I added a script for this on GitHub (https://github.com/nielsengelen/veeam-p ... Filter.ps1)

Just change the 3 variabeles on top to match your needs and use Windows Task Schedule to run the script every X hours or once a day.

[tbeekmans]

I would be nice to have this in the GUI..

[Mike Resseler]

Tom,

With that powershell script you do basically the same as running through the wizard only through a task scheduler. It would be very difficult to actually have this in the UI automated, then we would add some sort of task scheduler in the solution