Microsoft 365 Benefits

Cove Data Protection (Cove) is a useful addition to the Microsoft 365 data centre redundancy services.

Exchange

• Retention 7 years
• Backup runs up to 6 sessions a day
• Backups up the full content of the mailbox
• You can restore accepted event invitation emails through the calendar restore
• Allows restore from a specific data and session
• Allows restore to 3 target locations:
  • Auto-generated location
  • Original location
  • New location
• All data processing and storage is kept regional Storage locations used:
  United States
  Brazil
  Canada
  Australia
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  The Netherlands
  Switzerland
  Belgium

OneDrive

• Retention 7 years
• Backup runs up to 4 sessions a day
• Allows restore from a specific date and session
• Allows restore to 3 target locations:
  • Auto-generated location
  • Original location
  • New location
• All data processing and storage is kept regional Storage locations used:
  United States
  Brazil
  Canada
  Australia
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  The Netherlands
  Switzerland
  Belgium

SharePoint

• Retention 7 years
• Backup runs up to 4 sessions a day
• Allows restore from a specific date and session
• From version 19.12, SharePoint online permissions are now protected. See the Microsoft 365 SharePoint Permissions page for more details.

  This allows you to restore SharePoint files and folders to their original state from the backup session

• Allows restore to 2 target locations:
  • Original location
  • New location
• All data processing and storage is kept regional Storage locations used:
  United States
  Brazil
  Canada
  Australia
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  The Netherlands
  Switzerland
  Belgium
• Role definitions can be restored only in root site (or site collection)
• Meta-data of SharePoint files can be backed up and restored