Does SharePoint have a native backup?

Microsoft SharePoint does not provide a built-in backup feature. However, it’s imperative to understand Microsoft’s shared responsibility model. Business leaders and IT professionals should understand which security tasks are handled by Microsoft and which are handled by the customer (you). In fact, Microsoft recommends its customers use a third-party backup and recovery solution to fortify the protection of critical SharePoint data. For more details, read the latest Microsoft Service Agreement.

What is the best backup solution for SharePoint?

For managed service providers (MSPs), Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is one of the most efficient, secure and reliable ways to backup SharePoint data for your clients. The solution is designed for MSPs and empowers technicians to easily manage, back up and restore SharePoint data as well as data in other collaboration app environments, including Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. For small and mid-size businesses and large enterprises, Acronis Cyber Protect delivers comprehensive cyber protection across complex IT environments. Whether you’re an MSP or a business, the solution helps to cut down vendor lists and consolidate protection products into a single solution — giving you unmatched cost savings. Its ease of use, affordability and efficiency makes it the ideal solution for any resource-constrained IT team.

Can Acronis Cyber Protect back up an entire SharePoint site?

Yes, Acronis protects every piece of information stored in your Sharepoint site: sites, subsites, lists, documents and libraries, and pages. Moreover, with Acronis’ granular SharePoint recovery, you can swiftly recover data, including from single a item, file or database to a complete server or your entire SharePoint farm. Acronis helps you ensure all valuable data is secure and recoverable even when the farm configuration changes.

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For Business & Enterprise

Acronis Cyber Protect

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Centralized cyber protection solution to streamline your endpoint protection, backup and disaster recovery, and management through integration and automation.

For Managed Service Providers

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

Integrated cyber protection platform unifying cybersecurity, backup & recovery, and management to reduce complexity, streamline your services and cut costs. All in one solution for MSPs.

Why Microsoft SharePoint backup and recovery is integral

While Microsoft SharePoint provides robust services for business productivity, Microsoft does not assume responsibility for customer data. You share some of the responsibility, and opportunistic cybercriminals take advantage of ill-equipped businesses. That is where Acronis comes in.

Take advantage of agentless backup
Ensure swift, reliable access to data despite Microsoft service interruptions due to outages, system maintenance, technical issues or external factors.
Rapidly recover from unforeseen events
Prevent irrecoverable data loss and downtime. Quick granular recovery enables you to quickly restore data after ransomware, natural disasters or accidental deletion.
Protect data and satisfy compliance
Regularly and continuously back up Microsoft SharePoint data to make sure it is recoverable. Improve adherence with regulatory compliance and legal mandates.

SharePoint data security with Acronis

ingle-pass backup for SharePoint
Patented disk image technology unites disk and SharePoint component backups into a single high- performance, efficient solution. You are empowered to capture databases, applications and OSs at one time.
Easy Cloud-to-cloud backup
Ensure holistic data protection with cloud-to-cloud agentless backup technologies.
Unlimited retention
A manageable retention policy and a selection of data centers to store your data. Gain transparent control over backup processes, including logs, dashboards and reports with alerts.
Improved visibility and complete control over data
Define backup schedules and scope. You can control the backup’s location and gain full visibility into data protection with flexible reporting.
Backup-status monitoring
Get advanced reporting capabilities and backup-status monitoring to stay up to date on critical events.
Automatically protect new SharePoint items
Streamline backup management for SharePoint and eliminate complexity. With Acronis, you automatically protect new users, groups and sites.
Search and find backups quickly
With so much SharePoint data, it can be like finding a needle in a haystack. Acronis’ enhanced search empowers you to locate any document or piece of information in SharePoint within seconds.
Flexible group management
Easily update, tailor and apply specific policies for large groups, including up to thousands of users.

Swift, granular restore
Mitigate downtime and assure business continuity by rapidly recovering data in seconds. By backing up granularly, you can restore required pieces of SharePoint data efficiently.
Point-in-time recovery
Acronis backup always keeps a copy of your data available for swift recovery to a required point in time and keeps you protected from any type of data loss.
Backup encryption for malware-free restores
Ensure restored SharePoint data is malware-free. Acronis protects you against restoral of ransomware affected backups by encrypting data.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does SharePoint have a native backup?
Microsoft SharePoint does not provide a built-in backup feature. However, it’s imperative to understand Microsoft’s shared responsibility model. Business leaders and IT professionals should understand which security tasks are handled by Microsoft and which are handled by the customer (you). In fact, Microsoft recommends its customers use a third-party backup and recovery solution to fortify the protection of critical SharePoint data. For more details, read the latest Microsoft Service Agreement.
What is the best backup solution for SharePoint?
For managed service providers (MSPs), Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is one of the most efficient, secure and reliable ways to backup SharePoint data for your clients. The solution is designed for MSPs and empowers technicians to easily manage, back up and restore SharePoint data as well as data in other collaboration app environments, including Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.

For small and mid-size businesses and large enterprises, Acronis Cyber Protect delivers comprehensive cyber protection across complex IT environments.

Whether you’re an MSP or a business, the solution helps to cut down vendor lists and consolidate protection products into a single solution — giving you unmatched cost savings. Its ease of use, affordability and efficiency makes it the ideal solution for any resource-constrained IT team.
Can Acronis Cyber Protect back up an entire SharePoint site?
Yes, Acronis protects every piece of information stored in your Sharepoint site: sites, subsites, lists, documents and libraries, and pages. Moreover, with Acronis’ granular SharePoint recovery, you can swiftly recover data, including from single a item, file or database to a complete server or your entire SharePoint farm. Acronis helps you ensure all valuable data is secure and recoverable even when the farm configuration changes.

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