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What is Redstor Backup for Microsoft 365
Redstor Backup for Microsoft 365 is a cloud-based backup service designed to protect Microsoft 365 data such as Exchange Online mailboxes, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Teams content. It targets IT teams and managed service providers that need independent retention and recovery beyond native Microsoft 365 capabilities. The product focuses on policy-based backups and granular restores for common user and compliance-driven recovery scenarios. It is delivered as a SaaS offering managed through Redstor’s administration interface.
Purpose-built for Microsoft 365
The product is designed specifically around Microsoft 365 workloads rather than general-purpose file or object storage. This typically enables item-level recovery workflows (for example, restoring individual emails or files) that are more operationally practical than restoring from raw archive storage. It also aligns backup scope and permissions with Microsoft 365 tenant structures, which simplifies administration for IT teams managing multiple users and sites.
Granular restore capabilities
Microsoft 365 backup tools are often evaluated on how precisely they can restore content without broad rollbacks. Redstor Backup for Microsoft 365 supports granular recovery use cases that reduce the need to restore entire sites or mailboxes to recover a small set of items. This can shorten recovery time for common incidents such as accidental deletion, overwrite, or ransomware-driven file changes.
SaaS delivery reduces infrastructure
As a SaaS backup product, it avoids the need to deploy and maintain backup servers, storage appliances, or archive tiers in the customer environment. This can reduce operational overhead compared with approaches that require managing storage platforms or archive storage services directly. It also suits distributed organizations and service providers that prefer centralized management across tenants.
Microsoft 365 scope only
This product is focused on Microsoft 365 data protection and is not a general storage management or archive storage platform. Organizations looking for a single system to cover endpoints, on-premises servers, databases, and multiple cloud workloads may need additional backup products. This can increase vendor and policy complexity in mixed environments.
Not a full DRaaS platform
While it supports recovery of Microsoft 365 content, it does not replace disaster recovery services that orchestrate application failover, compute recovery, and network rehydration for broader IT estates. Companies with DR requirements for virtual machines, on-prem applications, or cloud infrastructure will typically need separate DR tooling. As a result, it addresses data recovery for SaaS content rather than end-to-end disaster recovery.
Limited archive governance features
Backup products for Microsoft 365 generally prioritize restore and retention over long-term records management and communications archiving. If an organization requires advanced eDiscovery workflows, immutable retention controls tailored to regulated archiving, or supervision features, it may need a dedicated archiving solution. This can create parallel retention policies between backup and formal archive systems.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 Backup (standalone) | Not published on official site — Request pricing / Contact sales | Billing is based on number of Microsoft 365 seats selected for backup (both active and inactive seats count). 30-day free trial available (per Redstor Help Center). No egress fees; agentless, cloud-native service. See product page and help articles for details. |
| Restore Bundle (M365 Backup + Entra ID Backup) | Not published on official site — Request pricing / Contact sales | Bundle pricing available; billing for bundle based on number of M365 seats. Available only on Redstor's new pricing plan. |
| Comply Bundle (M365 Backup + Entra ID Backup + Email Archiving) | Not published on official site — Request pricing / Contact sales | Bundle pricing available; billed based on licensed M365 users. Not available to Education customers (use Education bundle). |
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