Recovering Microsoft 365 data
Acronis True Image allows you to protect your personal Microsoft 365 account from losing your e-mail messages, files and folders, profile information, and other data. When you have a cloud backup of your account data, you can browse it and recover specific items.
What items can be recovered?
The following items can be recovered from a mailbox backup:
- Entire mailbox
- E-mail messages
- Attachments
The following items can be recovered from a OneDrive backup:
- Entire OneDrive
- Any files and folders that were backed up
Recovering Microsoft 365 data
To browse and recover your data
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Open Online Dashboard by doing one of the following:
- Follow the link: https://cloud.acronis.com.
- On the sidebar of Acronis True Image, click Account, and then click Open Online Dashboard.
- Sign in to your Acronis account.
- On the sidebar, click Resources, find the Microsoft 365 backup, and then click Recover.
- Browse a list of your backups. If needed, use the filter to find a backup by content.
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After selecting a backup, click Recover..., and choose the data that you want to restore:
- Entire OneDrive or specific files and folders.
- Entire mailbox or specific messages.
When you choose to recover specific items, the Online Dashboard opens the list of the backed-up items. You can browse them, view their contents, and use search to find a specific item (not available for some data types).
After selecting items, you can choose an operation to perform (depending on data type, some operations may be unavailable):
- Show content — click to view the item details or open it in full size.
- Send as email — click to send the message to selected recipients.
- Show versions — click to view the versions of the item.
- Recover — click to specify a location for the items that you recover. You can also recover sharing permissions for some items.
- Download — click to download the selected file.
- Click Start recovery.