![]() You will want to backup files that are in use You will have employees who have D and E drives on their endpoints, or you may need to backup entire systems for regulatory compliances. You will want to backup more than Desktop, Documents, etc. Here are a few reasons why: You will need to backup more than just the Windows known folders OneDrive can substitute as a “backup” in cases of an occasional data loss, and may serve as an adequate backup solution for a small business, but if you are an organization with more than a 100 employees, you should consider getting an industrial strength endpoint backup solution. Why you need an Industrial Strength Backup Solution Backup software, however, is designed to restore data back from a previous “safe” point in time and you can choose to bring back an entire folder, drive or system in a single, hassle-free step. But recovery is painful and involves hours of laborious work, including going through each file in the OneDrive console to view and retrieve previous versions. It is true that OneDrive preserves older versions of files even if the latest copies are infected/deleted by Ransomware. In such a case, the damage caused to the data on the endpoint is immediately replicated by the sync software to the cloud repository, which in turns transmits that damage to alternate devices the end user owns (or worse his/her collaborators as well). To illustrate, imagine that an unfavorable change occurs on an endpoint something like a malware attack or ransomware. ![]() While on the surface, both sync and backup make secondary copies of your data - they are very different in how they operate and how they are used by customers. Sync is a productivity enhancerĪ backup is designed to keep a copy of your data safe. And this same data is in turn replicated immediately to other devices the user (or his/her collaborators) may be using. The automatic redirection means users can continue using the folders they normally used, while the automatic redirection ensures that they get a copy in OneDrive.ĭoes this ensure that users have ready access to more of their endpoint data from alternate devices and mobile devices? Absolutely yes!ĭoes it ensure that their endpoint data is now safer because it is “backed up” in OneDrive? Well, not entirely.Ī sync solution is designed to ensure that data is replicated to a central repository as quickly as changes are made to it at the source. Why is this good news? Because OneDrive for Business is inherently a sync client focused on ensuring that the contents of one folder on your endpoint (namely the OneDrive folder) are synchronized with their cloud repository.īut useful as this may be, end users tend to store their valuable data in several other places besides the OneDrive folder - and unless users were disciplined enough to place copies in OneDrive, much of this data wasn’t getting synchronized to the cloud. Such redirection was possible earlier as well, but by making it available via easy-to-use AD GPO, Microsoft has made life much easier for administrators. Administrators can now use Group Policy Objects to prompt users to redirect known Windows folders, such as Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Screenshots, and Camera Roll to OneDrive. Microsoft recently announced a useful feature for OneDrive enterprise users. How much safer does it make your endpoint? ![]() Known folder redirection to OneDrive: What you should know ![]()
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