How to Create an Exchange Online Backup Plan

Exchange Online is an email application hosted on Microsoft cloud. To protect your Exchange Online mail items (Mails, Calendar items, Contacts, and so on) from Microsoft cloud, you need to create a plan. The plan for Exchange Online consists of a backup task. This backup task lets you specify the Exchange Online nodes you want to protect, the backup destination, and the backup schedule. The backup destination is a non-deduplication data store where you store your backup data.

What To Do Next?

  1. Review the Prerequisites and Considerations
  2. Create an Exchange Online Backup Plan
  3. (Optional) Perform a Manual Backup