Features

The Bacula Enterprise Microsoft 365 Plugin is a very easy to deploy and configure plugin supporting the following M365 services:

OneDrive
Emails
Mailbox settings
Sharepoint Online
Calendars
Contacts
OneNote
Tasks
Teams
Chats
Activity reports

It is shipped with advanced parallelization, resiliency, and flexibility features in addition to covering most of the possible M365 use case scenarios. A full feature list is presented below:

Common features
- Microsoft Graph API based backups
- Multi-service backup in the same task
- Multi-service parallelization capabilities
- Multi-thread single service processes
- Automatic parallelization of fetching processes
- Generation of user-friendly report for restore operations
- Network resiliency mechanisms
- Latest Microsoft Authentication mechanisms
- Discovery/List/Query capabilities
- Restore objects to Microsoft 365
  - To original entity
  - To any other entity
  - To a different tenant (cross-tenant restore)
- Restore any object to filesystem
- Owner data protection feature:
  - Notify data owner about restore actions of his data
  - Do not proceed further until he enters his M365 credentials
- Incremental & Differential backups
  - Advanced delta function for improved performance (for selected services)
Backup and Restore of Exchange Online Mailboxes
- Mailfolder, message and attachment granularity for restore
- Email addresses and mailfolders selection capabilities for backup
- Mailbox settings protection
- Folder rules protection
- Restore objects to Microsoft 365 or to any file-system
- Restore MIME messages to any filesystem
- Incremental & Differential backup
- Support for user mailboxes and shared mailboxes
- User categories protection
- Fully indexed information into Bacula Catalog
- Advanced search capabilities for restore operations
- Ability to filter input data by date
- Ability to exclude message fields from backup or from index
- Exclude private or spam messages through powerful filtering capability
- Export to PST format
Backup and Restore of OneDrive for Business & Sharepoint Document libraries
- Backup and Restore of User drives
- Backup and Restore of Group drives
- Backup and Restore of Sharepoint document libraries
  - Include/Exclude system libraries
  - Include/Exclude hidden libraries
- Backup main entity drive unit, but also any other unit
- Advanced selection capabilities
  - Target entities (Users/Groups/Sites)
    - List Include/List Exclude/Regex include/Regex Exclude…
  - Folder selection capabilities for backup
    - List Include/List Exclude
  - File selection capabilities for backup
    - Regex include/Regex Exclude…
  - Drive unit selection capabilities
- Folder and file granularity for restore
- Computed hash check at backup and restore time
- Backup and restore of permissions shares
- Backup and restore of shared elements to each entity
- Backup and restore of OneDrive file versions
Backup and Restore of Sharepoint Sites
- Backup of Site Objects (MS Graph Object)
  - Backup Site Sharing permissions
- Backup of full Site Templates (PnP Powershell Provisioning):
  - Site metadata
  - Lists metadata
  - ListItems metadata
  - WebPages metadata
  - DocumentLibraries metadata
  - Support for Sub-Sites
- Restore backed up sites as new sites using Site Template (PnP Powershell Provisioning)
- Backup/Restore Lists Objects (MS Graph Object)
- Backup/Restore ListItems (MS Graph Object)
- Backup/Restore Document Libraries Drive Items
Backup and Restore of Contacts/People
- Backup/restore Contacts
- Backup/restore groups of contacts
- Backup Organizational contacts (Read-only)
Backup and Restore of Tasks
- Backup/restore User todo tasks
- Backup/restore Teams Planner tasks
Backup and Restore of Calendars
- Backup/Restore user calendars
- Backup/Restore user groups of calendars
- Backup/Restore groups calendar
  - Calendar permissions
- Backup/Restore Events
  - Support for Attachments
    - File Attachments
    - Reference Attachments
    - Item Attachments (including backup of MIME objects)
Backup and Restore of Onenote
- Backup/Restore of Notebooks
  - User notebooks
  - Site notebooks
  - Group notebooks
- Backup/Restore of SectionGroups/Sections
- Backup/Restore of Pages
  - Support for Page resources: Images and files
Backup and Restore of Teams
- Backup/Restore of Team
  - Public and Private Teams
  - Team entity
  - Team members and roles
  - Team installed apps
- Backup/Restore of Team Channels
  - Public and Private Channels
  - Channel entity
  - Channel members
  - Channel tabs
  - Channel messages
  - Channel messages hosted contents
Backup and Restore of Chats
- Backup/Restore of Chat
  - Chat entity
  - Chat installed apps
  - Chat tabs
  - Chat messages
  - Chat messages hosted contents
Backup and Restore of Activity Reports
- Groups Activity Storage CSV Report
- Groups Activity Detail CSV Report
- Active User Detail CSV Report
- Activations User Detail CSV Report
- App User Detail CSV Report
- Yammer Device Usage User Detail CSV Report
- Yammer Activity User Detail CSV Report
- Yammer Activity Groups Detail CSV Report
- Teams Device Usage User Detail CSV Report
- Teams Activity User Detail CSV Report
- Teams Activity Group Detail CSV Report
- Skype Device Usage User Detail CSV Report
- Skype Activity User Detail CSV Report
- Sharepoint Site Usage Storage CSV Report
- Sharepoint Site Usage Detail CSV Report
- Sharepoint Activity User Detail CSV Report
- OneDrive Usage Storage CSV Report
- OneDrive Usage Account Detail CSV Report
- OneDrive Activity User Detail CSV Report
- Mailbox Usage Storage CSV Report
- Mailbox Usage Detail CSV Report
- Email App Usage User Detail CSV Report
- Email Activity User Detail CSV Report

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