- Backups of SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams
- A centralized management interface displaying comprehensive information: Real-time and historical protection of backup services, storage consumption, as well as data transmission history
- Privilege delegation for DSM administrators to assign non-admin users permissions to back up, restore, or delete data
- Easy backup task management and auto-detection of newly created accounts and sites
- Flexible backups with scheduled, manual, and continuous backup modes, as well as retention policies with unlimited recovery points
- Storage efficiency optimized via single-instancing technology and block-level deduplication
Application component
Admin Console
Features
Specifications
- Provides backups for the following plans: Microsoft 365 Business, Enterprise, Education, and Exchange Online
- Supports endpoints of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet
- Backup
- Supports backups of various Microsoft services:
- OneDrive for Business: Files, sharing permissions, and corresponding metadata, such as the last modified time
- Exchange Online: Mails, attachments, and folder structures; contacts and calendars along with their attachments
- SharePoint Online: Document libraries and lists of sites and personal sites
- Microsoft Teams: Posts in original message formats, emojis, stickers, and settings such as member and guest permissions
- Supports backing up all or selected users within a tenant by tasks
- Supports backing up multiple tenants
- Supports 3 types of backup policies: Scheduled, manual, and continuous backup modes
- Supports 2 types of retention policies: Keep versions for a specified period or keep all versions
- Supports custom concurrent backup limits for accounts and files to restrict the bandwidth consumption. The maximum values based on the RAM capacity are:
- 2 GB or less: 20
- 2 GB - 4 GB: 40
- 4 GB - 16 GB: 50
- 16 GB or more: 60
- Storage efficiency
- Single instancing: Files containing identical content will be transferred only once and stored on your Synology NAS with only one copy
- Block-level deduplication: Files stored in Btrfs volumes (except encrypted shared folders) will be deduplicated according to the previous versions
- Support list:
- Supports backups of various Microsoft services:
| Single instancing | Block-level deduplication | |
|---|---|---|
| OneDrive | O | O |
| Mail/Archive mailbox | Attachment only | X |
| Contacts | X | X |
| Calendar | Attachment only | X |
| SharePoint | Document library and attachment only | Document library and attachment only |
| Teams | X | X |
- Management
- A centralized console displaying comprehensive information: Real-time and historical backups of each service, storage consumption, as well as data transmission history
- Account discovery for OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online: New accounts will be automatically selected for backups
- Site discovery for SharePoint: New sites and personal sites will be automatically selected for backups
- Team discovery for Microsoft Teams: New teams will be automatically selected for backups
- Supports batch deletion of backup data stored in Synology NAS
- Sends notifications when a backup completes, fails, or is canceled, and when there is insufficient space available for backup data
- Provides logs to record backups, restorations, account discovery, and setting changes. Logs can be exported to a CSV file
- Supports multi-factor authentication
- Recommended models
Limitations
- Tasks deleted in versions earlier than 2.2.1 cannot be relinked
- Some objects are not backup-compatible or will not be backed up under certain circumstances:
- OneDrive
- Files and folders with names or paths that contain "#SynoVersionRepo", "#SynoRepo", or "#SynoVersions"
- Files and folders with DSM paths longer than 4,016 characters
- Files and folders with names that exceed 255 characters on the backup destination
- Files and folders with names that exceed 143 characters on an encrypted backup destination
- Files and folders stored in "Shared with me"
- Mail
- Public folder mailboxes and on-premises Exchange mailboxes (User mailboxes, shared mailboxes, archive mailboxes, resource mailboxes, and site mailboxes can be backed up)
- Reference attachments: Links to folders or files on OneDrive for Business or other supported storage locations. These are often attached to events, messages, Outlook tasks, or posts
- Mails in the "Deleted folder" when there are any contacts or calendars within the folder
- Notes
- Contacts
- All contacts other than "Your contacts" (For example: folder structures, "Groups", and "Directory")
- Contact lists in Outlook "People"
- Contacts in the "Deleted folder"
- Calendar
- Calendar events earlier than 1970/01/01 or after 2070/01/01
- Folder structures (All calendars will be shown under the "All Calendar")
- Calendars in the "Deleted folder"
- Calendar events shared from other calendars
- SharePoint
- Permission settings of SharePoint sites, while those of document libraries can be backed up
- Unsearchable SharePoint sites (How to make a site searchable)
- Two types of columns: "Lookup" and "Person or Group"
- "Survey Options" for surveys
- User interface elements in a non-default language on SharePoint sites, including titles and descriptions of sites, lists, and columns
- The following settings of lists and document libraries:
- Document Version History (document library only)
- Item Version History (list only)
- Document Template (document library only)
- Opening Documents in the Browser (document library only)
- Custom Send to Destination (document library only)
- Site Assets Library (document library only)
- Dialogs
- Automatic Index Management
- Validation Settings
- Audience Targeting Settings
- Rating Settings
- RSS Settings
- Content Type
- Teams
- Teams in Microsoft 365 operated by 21Vianet
- 1-on-1 chat
- Private channel settings
- The following settings of public teams and channels:
- Team pictures
- Team codes
- Tags
- Apps that are not stored in SharePoint (e.g., Survey)
- Analytics
- OneDrive
Recovery Portal
Features
- Facilitates the recovery process by restoring or exporting single mails, files, contacts, calendars, document libraries, lists, and team posts instead of entire backup tasks
- Supports filtering and previewing backup data via keyword search
- Supports privilege delegation and self-service restoration to reduce the IT burden
- Allows Microsoft Azure AD users to sign in using their Microsoft 365 credentials
Specifications
- User privileges
- End users can sign in to Active Backup for Microsoft 365 Portal
- Users with admin or restore privileges can restore or download all users' backup data
- Users without admin or restore privileges can only restore or download their backup data
- Data restoration
- OneDrive: Supports restoring selected files or folders in a directory along with sharing permissions
- Mail: Supports restoring selected mails, single mail folders, or entire account/archive mailboxes
- Contacts: Supports restoring selected contacts
- Calendar: Supports restoring selected calendar events
- SharePoint: Supports restoring selected document libraries and lists along with document library sharing permissions
- Teams: Supports restoring selected posts and team/channel members along with their permissions. Multiple posts across channels can be restored in the HTML format
- Data export
- OneDrive: Supports exporting single files or folders
- Mail: Supports exporting selected mails/attachments, single mail folders, or entire account/archive mailboxes to an EML or PST file
- Contacts: Supports exporting selected contacts into a CSV file
- Calendar: Supports exporting selected calendars events into an ICS file
- SharePoint: Supports exporting selected document libraries
- Teams: Supports exporting selected posts across channels into an HTML file
- Backup data preview
- Mail: Supports previewing email content
- Contacts: Supports previewing contact information
- Teams: Supports previewing post content
- Content search
- Mail: Supports filtering emails by sender, receiver, subject, keyword, date, and attachment content. Supported attachment file types are as follows:
- .page/.key/.numbers
- .rtf
- Microsoft Office format (e.g., .docx/.doc,.pptx/.ppt), except the Microsoft Excel file format (.xlsx/.xls)
- Text files (e.g., .cpp, .c, .txt)
- .epub
- .lit
- .mobi/.azw3/.pdb/.prc
- .rar
- .chm
- .slk/.gnumeric
- .eml/.msg
- .7z/.bz2/.gz/.zip/.tgz/.tbz/.tar
- OneDrive: Supports filtering files by filename
- Contacts: Supports filtering contacts by email address
- Calendar: Supports filtering calendar events by organizer, title, and location
- SharePoint: Supports filtering document libraries, lists, and files by title, description, and content
- Teams: Supports filtering posts by author, content, date, and whether or not it contains a conversation thread
- Mail: Supports filtering emails by sender, receiver, subject, keyword, date, and attachment content. Supported attachment file types are as follows:
Limitations
- Cross-tenant restoration is not supported
- The following variables are not supported for content search:
- Stop words, regardless of case: "a", "an", "and", "are", "as", "at", "be", "but", "by", "for", "if", "in", "into", "is", "it", "no", "not", "of", "on", "or", "such", "that", "the", "their", "then", "there", "these", "they", "this", "to", "was", "will", and "with"
- Symbols: For example, "@", "#", "*", "/", and "\"
- Punctuation marks: For example, "!", "?", and ":"
- Emoji
- Dates such as Birthday, Anniversary in Contacts
- Dates or numbers in SharePoint Online
- Regular expressions
- Data cannot be restored under the following circumstances:
- OneDrive:
- The filename is "permission"
- SharePoint:
- The restored folder or file path is more than 400 characters
- OneDrive:
