Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 • Have I missunderstood Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365?

Ok so I have been using Veeam B&R for 10+ years and possibly naively assumed VB for M365 was similar, but it seems like its extremley limited (at least compared to our use case).

With B&R we backup each job to local storage (with job retention policies), secondary copy to Tape then backup copy to a repo at a remote site/DC. We are also going to add Veeam vault + Immutable repo for additional protection. All good no issues.

Now with M365 software we only have either local disk or object storage. We dont have any object storage so have a local disk based repo, thats fine so we now have 1 backup copy. But no secondary copy option, no copy job for additional repo's at external sites/dc. No option for veeam vault either???

Also no job retention policy or backup type (incremental/full etc..) and seems like its a simple retention policy based on the repo. So I need a repo for each job type if I wanted different rententions.

Have I missed something here or do I need to now backup M365 repo's with B&R? Just for clarity we are looking to only back OneDrive folders at this time as B&R does everything else (we are on prem for exchange, servers, etc..).

Statistics: Posted by bhlgr015 — Sep 22, 2025 1:44 pm

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