Mr. Backup takes on reddit about Microsoft 365 backup

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi weigh in on a reddit thread that started with a simple question from a user. He has MSPs trying to sell him a solution to back up Microsoft 365, and he's wondering if that's even necessary. As usual on reddit, there are many opinions. Mr. Backup debates the various points being made by the anit-backup crowd, including an article arguing the same point. We start with an overview of why it's important, then we take on the various arguments used to support not backing it up. We talk about how retention policies are not backup, and why. Even retention lock doesn't help, and neither do lagged copies of Exchange Online. We also talk about how the e-discovery tool is NOT a restore tool and will not give you what you're looking for. Finally, we talk about the idea that backup tools can't do DR for Exchange online, and how that is used to bash them as well. Great discussion on this one.