In this case, the customer had Veritas NetBackup SaaS Protection in place for their Microsoft 365 backups, so they were able to recover the data quickly and fully. All of the affected files were in a shared OneDrive for Business folder that contained important data (e.g., contracts, estimates, project records, and proposals). Here is what happened: Early one morning, an employee’s Surface laptop was infected with some sort of malware which performed 1,754 file deletions in Windows Explorer.

In a business setting, this sort of situation can occur quite often - such as when accessing files of a former employee (if he removed them), or accessing important documents in a litigation issue.One of our customers had an incident that perfectly illustrates why businesses need a backup solution for their OneDrive for Business sites. Given that data is only saved for 30 days, users will be caught off guard if they need to recover anything beyond that timeframe.

On Using OneDrive as a BackupOneDrive is not a good option for endpoint protection, even if some make the mistake of using it as a backup. This regardless of the recycle bin in which they were saved (first or second level).

Items from OneDrive are removed from the recycle bin(s) after 90 days, starting from the original delete date.

If your Recycle Bin is full, the oldest items will be automatically deleted after three days.

But Items in the Recycle Bin will be automatically deleted after 30 days.

You can recover items in the OneDrive Recycle Bin.

It's good to know the following, about OneDrive retention policy: But what if you've lost or deleted a OneDrive file? Cloud files are notorious for being prone to accidental deletion or sync issues. It also has a very convenient client for mobile devices such as tablets and mobile - so you can reply to your emails on vacation, if you like (anyone still doing this? I sure am). OneDrive for Business Retention PolicyOneDrive comprises of a SharePoint document library for uploading data and a local folder that can synchronise the data in your cloud account to your machine.

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