Sharepoint: Documents -Export Restore Point Data

[mlumsden76]

We have a tenant that wants "a snapshot of SharePoint, exactly how it is on Dec 31". They essentially want the files, organized into folders that represent the SharePoint sites they currently reside.
I'm interested in hearing your ideas on how to accomplish this with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. I did a trial run on a current restore point, and it looks messy.

I thought I could select the top level, and then save as... files or .zip, and I'd just get the entire sharepoint structure with the files. There is no option to do that at the root. The only way i've seen is to go to each site, go to the documents folder and export each documents folder. It doesnt even save the documents folder as the name of the site. I'd have to manually rename each one from documents.zip to "site name"

Another way i thought to do it was to create a new job and target local storage. I have the backup folder full of the folder years and .adb files. I guess I could load this backup data into the VB365 console if they need a restore, that also seems messy and we'd have to keep the data. I'd rather just hand them a USB HDD with all the data on it and they can do what they wish, or i could upload it to an azure file share for them to reference if needed in the future.

[Polina]

Hi Michael,

The only option indeed is to provide them either an object storage bucket or an disk with Jet db files. For further restores, they can locally install VB365 Community Edition, add their organization and the repository and use Veeam Explorers to restore the data.

Thanks!