#Synology cloud station backup pst files how to
#Synology cloud station backup pst files software

Running a backup is great, but how do you restore the data? There’s a second app you’ll need, ‘Active Backup for Microsoft 365 Portal’. It’s also worth noting that the backup you created has an ‘account discovery’ option where it’ll find any new accounts created and automatically add them to the backup, which is great for not having to change backup settings each time you have a new user start. The ‘Activities’ section of Active Backup for Microsoft 365 will show any backups running, and you can also use the inbuilt ‘Resource Monitor’ to see upload/download speeds, disk utilization etc. The program will then go off and start backing up what you told it. This was a very easy setup to do – I took screenshots of every step involved, but it barely needs an explanation for anyone who’s an admin of a Microsoft 365 Tenant. Review all the settings and click ‘Apply’.Choose your backup schedule – I used Continuous.Choose the ‘Site’ tab to select which SharePoint sites you want to back up.Pick the user(s) you want to back up and what date.Again, choose the Office 365 option applicable to your tenant.Make any user permission changes you like and press ‘OK’.Enter a name and description for the shared folder.You need a shared folder to save the backups too – ‘Go to Control Panel’ Accept the very long list of permissions required using an admin account for your Microsoft 365 tenant.Choose the endpoint – for most it’s the default ‘Office 365’ option.Find and click ‘install’ on the ‘Active Backup for Microsoft 365' package.Assuming you have yourself a Synology DiskStation of some sort that supports ' Active Backup for Microsoft 365' – and which models are those? Here’s the list:

#Synology cloud station backup pst files how to

I know I’ve gotten ahead of myself here, so let’s go back to how to set this up. Maybe I’m hitting it too much and getting blocked occasionally.

This is likely because I used a backup option to get incremental changes, rather than at a set time. I drilled into those and each was because ‘The Microsoft Server is busy’, and a few minutes later it would try again successfully. You might notice there are a few errors in the summary. Some useful information there around what’s being backed up and how big it is. Here’s what the dashboard looks like now: There’s also a little SharePoint Online data from Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams I’ve played around with.

This tenant is just for me, so the data set is smaller than most tenants – but I do run a few live things through it like email and OneDrive. I ticked ALL the options to see how it went. I’ve left the new Intel-based DiskStation 1618+ – Quad-Core CPU and 4GB RAM (expandable) running for about a month now, backing up my Microsoft 365 tenant’s data. To me, that’s already a very appealing offering, along with Synology having a good reputation for maintaining and supporting their hardware several years on – which was proved by the 7-year-old DS1813+ I set up a few months ago.

#Synology cloud station backup pst files software

After reading up on it and seeing that it was a completely free piece of software available as part of owning a DiskStation, I was hoping this would be a good solution at an incredibly low price – buy your DiskStation and disks, some time to set it up, and you’re done.