Microsoft 365 Backup - Create a backup job

Prerequisites

In order to create a backup job for Microsoft 365 Backup, the service needs to be enabled. Please follow this guide: Microsoft 365 Backup - Enable service

Creating a backup job

Log into the Portal and select Microsoft 365 Backup on the start page.

Open

Select Create Job and wait for you tenant to be loaded.

Open

Per default the service suggests to backup the entire organization. That includes groups, mailboxes, Sharepoint, Teams etc.

If you agree to backup the entire organisation, select Create job.

If you would like to select what users, mailboxes etc you want to backup, unselect Backup the entire organization and chose what you want to backup and select Create job.

Include specific objects by first selecting the type of object and then selecting the individual objects that should be backed up.

Items may also be excluded, but only items not already implicitly included in the job.

Finally, click on ‘Create job’.

The job will start in the background and you can now follow the process by clicking the history icon for the job.