OneDrive

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To protect OneDrive with IBM® Storage Protect for Cloud, you must have at least one of the following apps configured for your tenant for auto discovery and data protection:
  • IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft™ 365 (SharePoint Online) service app
  • Microsoft 365 default app with at least the SharePoint Online permissions
  • Custom Azure app with the required permissions
Note the following for the OneDrive service:
  • Backup for OneDrive now uses Microsoft Graph API for improved performance. Graph API has been more focused on protecting OneDrive content, and it has some limitations, such as it cannot protect the file versions. The file version number cannot be kept either after being restored to the destination. The restored file will use version: 1.0. You can refer to OneDrive Data Types for additional details. If you require any additional assistance, contact IBM Software Support.
  • IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365 for OneDrive will protect the Documents library and protect the Site Assets library if the site feature Site NoteBook is activated. The service only protects content and permissions for OneDrive since OneDrive is the cloud service used to securely store, share, and access your files.
  • As Microsoft API has a 2 GB size limit to download OneNote notebooks saved in OneDrive or SharePoint, backup jobs will skip the OneNote files that are larger than 2 GB. In addition, due to API limitations, IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365 cannot protect the history versions of OneNote files.
  • If there are security changes but no changes on the content in the sites, the scheduled incremental backup jobs will not back up the securities. Moving forward, the changes on the securities in the sites (including the SharePoint Online sites, OneDrive , and Microsoft 365 Groups/Teams team sites) that have not yet been backed up, in this case, will be included in an incremental backup once a week.

    If some items in a site encounter errors in a backup but there are no changes on the content in the site for the next backup, the scheduled incremental backup jobs will not back up these items with errors. Moving forward, they will be included in an incremental backup once a week.

  • If you would like to filter the folders to protect for OneDrive service or Exchange Online service, or filter the folders or lists/libraries within the site collections of SharePoint Online service, Project Online services, Microsoft 365 Groups services, or Teams service, you can contact the IBM Software Support for assistance. Note that if your subscription to IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365 is based on the protected data size, the total consumed data size in your subscription will not be affected by the filter policy. IBM will not exclude the size of the filtered items from the total consumed data size.
  • IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Auto discovery now supports including orphaned OneDrive in scan profiles of OneDrive but the objects cannot be synchronized to IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365.

After your app profile is ready, navigate to the Auto discovery in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud interface to configure a scan profile for the OneDrive users that you want to protect in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365. For details, refer to Auto Discovery for Microsoft 365.

Then, you can navigate to IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365 interface to enable the backup service of OneDrive after the Auto Discovery scan job completes.