Microsoft 365 Backup review
Low-cost Microsoft 365 backup with granular recovery, but no Teams server-content protection.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Microsoft 365 Backup is a cloud backup and recovery service for organizations using Microsoft 365. It protects SharePoint sites, OneDrive accounts, and Exchange Online mailboxes through policies managed in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Administrators can restore complete SharePoint sites and OneDrive accounts, selected files and folders, or individual Exchange mailbox items. It is aimed at Microsoft 365 administrators who need workload coverage, recovery points, and pay-as-you-go billing in a Microsoft-managed environment.
The published plan is Pay as you go at $0.15 per GB per month, billed monthly, for protected Microsoft 365 backup storage. Restores are free, and an Azure subscription is required. The service supports multiple daily backups, selected recovery points, and express restore points for faster SharePoint and OneDrive recovery. That combination gives administrators both broad workload restoration and more targeted recovery options without a separate tier structure to compare. Graph API support also provides an integration path for Microsoft 365 administration and automation.
Storage protection is a notable part of the offering: append-only backup storage is designed to protect against malicious overwrites, while point-in-time recovery addresses accidental deletion and other recovery scenarios. The boundary is Microsoft Teams coverage. Teams chat and other Teams-server content are not protected; files stored in SharePoint sites for Teams channels are covered when those sites are included in a protection policy. Microsoft 365 customers focused on Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive backup should find the scope well aligned, while organizations requiring Teams chat or broader Teams-server protection should choose a service that covers those workloads.
Microsoft 365 Backup pros and cons
- Where it wins
- $0.15 per GB monthly pay-as-you-go pricing
- Granular and point-in-time recovery across key workloads
- Append-only storage helps protect against malicious overwrites
- Where it doesn't
- Microsoft Teams chat and server content are not protected
- An Azure subscription is required
- No free plan is available
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