Incremental forever backup for Microsoft 365

IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus supports a backup strategy that is named incremental forever. Rather than scheduling periodic full backup jobs, this backup strategy requires only one initial full backup. Afterward, an ongoing sequence of incremental backup jobs occurs.

The incremental forever backup solution provides the following advantages:
  • Reduces the amount of data that goes across the network
  • Reduces data growth because all incremental backups contain only the objects that are new or changed since the previous backup job
  • Reduces the duration of backup jobs

The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus incremental forever process includes the following steps:

  1. The first backup job backs up all data from selected Microsoft 365 accounts.
  2. All subsequent backup jobs back up only new or changed data from the selected accounts.