[Feature Request] Make O365 Backup normal

[cuwcd]

Who ever thought that email dates are what are needed for retention policies, I believe were on drugs!!! To me backup is backup. The way backup should be done is like file backup.

You start your backup and of course you get a full backup, then you have incremental backups and you get delta information then you should be able to create synthetic full backups as needed, and retention is how long you keep the backup file not the email!!!!!

That way you have someones full mail box as a backup, not just the emails that they have for the retention time.

[Polina]

Hi John,

You looking for an option similar to how VBR backup and retention works, right? In VBO, there're two different retention options, and one of them (snapshot-based type) is likely what you're looking for. With this retention, you protect all the historical data and incremental backups only save the delta. Retention is applied based on the last backup date (i.e. it'll remove restore points that are older than the specified retention period).

[Gostev]

See here both options explained here.

The item-level retention policy mode you're hating represents the retention of a classic physical document archive. I don't think people who invented document archives were on drugs as it makes perfect sense to keep individual records for a certain time period from their creation. In fact, it's not unusual for some companies to NOT want to store certain documents for longer than necessary by the law, as this may potentially expose them during possible lawsuits.

But yes, it's very different from what you may have used to with image-level backups, and may takes a moment to understand that this is the perfectly valid approach, just for a different use case.

Thanks!