Essentials for Office 365 2.12 - User Guide

Include only those items Older than Date: MM/DD/YYYY

When this filter is chosen, the backup will only include items that were modified prior to the date specified and never after it.  Due to this static starting Date and only including items prior, Incremental and Differential updates do not apply to this configuration since the amount of items will not change.

Include only those items Older than Range: n Days/Weeks/Months/Years

When this filter is chosen, the backup will only include items that were modified prior to the specified time range from the start of the backup operation ([Today]) going back.

Updating Mailbox Classic Backup

Once a Backup exists, users can create updates by capturing a full or incremental snapshots of their OneDrive environment.  Here are the basic guidelines for this process:

1.Select an Office 365 Mailboxes Backup project from the Backup Navigator panel.

2.From the Ribbon (or right-click menu for the selected backup) select the Update Backup option.  This will generate the Update Backup Properties screen.

3.A user may select one of several options for the update:

Full Update - this will create a full snapshot of your currently configured backup project.

Incremental Backup - this will capture only the changes in your backup project since the last update, regardless if that update was Full or Incremental.  In this scenario a user could create a series of Backups containing data changes for a specific time period.

Differential Backup - this will capture all the changes in your backup project since the last full Backup, even if other incremental Backups have been created in the interim.

Send Notification - Enter a specific user email address. For two or more, separate each email address with a comma.

Change Retention Policy - selecting this button will open the retention policy properties window, allowing you to update the retention policy for the backup.

4.Press Finish to update the Backup now or choose the Schedule button to configure a Windows Task Scheduler task to schedule the update backup (See the Scheduling Backup Jobs section for more information).

Restoring Mailbox Classic Backup

The following are instructions for restoring a OneDrive List/Library from a specific backup:

1.Navigate to the backup, You can access the Restore wizard by either right-clicking on the selected username and selecting the "Restore" option

Or you can access the Restore Wizard by selecting "To Original Location" in the Restore section of the Ribbon.

2.This will start a copy mailbox content job.