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Manage backups of Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams in Cloud Application Backup

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View and manage backups

To view and manage backups of groups and teams in your Microsoft 365 environment within Infrascale Cloud Application Backup (CAB):

  1. In the CAB Management Portal, click Homepage in the sidebar menu.

    The list of backup tasks opens.

  2. Click the Microsoft Groups and Teams backup task.

    Backup task selection

    The backup task page opens.

    Backup task page

    The backup task page allows configuring backup settings, and managing backups of individual groups and teams.

Group, team, and backup details

The backup task page shows all Microsoft groups and teams available for managing in CAB by your Microsoft 365 admin account in the table format with the following details:

Details Description
G&T Name of the group or the team
Type Group or Team
Tags Tags associated with the group or the team
Status Status of the group or the team backup. See Backup status for details.
Backup Size Size of the backup data
Last Backup Time from the latest completed backup
Backup Set of quick actions you can take in respect to the group or the team backup. See Quick actions for details.

You can sort groups and teams in the backup task by these details.

Backup status

Group and team backups can have one of the following statuses shown in the Status column:

Status Icon Description
Not Active Not Active icon Backup is not activated for the group or the team
Scheduled Scheduled icon Backup for the group or the team was activated, but the initial backup was not performed yet
Success Success icon Last backup of the group or the team completed successfully
In Process In Process icon Backup of the group or the team is currently in progress
Failed Failed icon Last backup of the group or the team failed
Paused Paused icon Backup of the group or the team is paused
Archived Archived icon Backup is suspended since the group or the team was removed from the Microsoft environment. Backup data is stored in our storage until you delete group or team backup.
Partial Partial icon CAB failed to back up the group or the team

Backup statistics

To view backup statistics for a certain group or team, click More (More icon) on the right of the group or the team. This will expand and show the backup timeline and the summary tiles.

Backup statistics

The timeline shows the number of items backed up each day. To view details, hover over the respective column. The numbers include all new and changed items, so it may be greater than the total number of items included in backup (shown in the summary tiles).

By default, the timeline shows information for the last two weeks. To adjust this range, use the slider below the timeline. The maximum range is 30 days.

Backup timeline

The summary tiles below the timeline show information about the backup of items in the group or the team: number of items included in backup, date and result status of the last backup.

Actions on groups and teams

To activate, start, pause, cancel, or delete group and team backups, use quick actions or batch actions.

Quick actions

To instantly activate, start, pause, or cancel backup for a specific group or team, use quick actions available next to the group or the team.

Quick actions

The following quick actions are available for the group and team backups:

Action Icon Description
Activate Activate icon Activate backup
Pause Pause icon Pause backup
Backup Now Backup Now icon Start backup immediately
Cancel Cancel icon Stop backup in progress

Batch actions

Besides quick actions, you can also take batch actions on several groups and teams at once. For this:

  1. Select checkbox on the left of one or more groups and teams in the table.

    To select all sites, select checkbox near the G&T column header.

    If you want to select groups and teams by their backup status, click the down arrow next to the G&T column header, and then select one of the statuses.

    Batch site selection

  2. Click Actions on the right, and then select the desired action from the drop-down list.

    Batch site actions

The following batch actions are available:

Action Icon Description
Activate Activate icon Activate backup
Pause Pause icon Pause backup
Backup Now Backup Now icon Start backup immediately
Delete Delete icon Remove backup and delete all backup data

Activate groups and teams backups

If you did not select to automatically activate backup for groups and teams in your Microsoft environment, you have to manually activate backup for individual groups and teams using quick actions, or for multiple groups and teams at once using batch actions.

Search groups and teams

You can search groups and teams in the backup task by the group or the team name.

Groups and teams search

Sort groups and teams

You can sort groups and teams in the backup task in ascending or descending order by group or team name, type, backup status, backup size, or last backup date. For this, click the header of one of the relevant table columns.

Groups and teams sorting