Prioritized Disaster Recovery

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 offers Prioritized Disaster Recovery to users with Express backup policies. Users create a Disaster Recovery plan so that if a disruptive event occurs, key data groups (for example, executive mailboxes, legal data and other critical data) included in the plan will be restored first to ensure minimal downtime and business continuity.

How Disaster Recovery Works

Veeam Data Cloud Disaster Recovery works in the following way:

Create a Disaster Recovery plan.
Assign objects to priority tiers.

The Disaster Recovery plan uses 3 priority tiers where you assign users (mailbox and OneDrive), groups (mailbox and OneDrive) and sites. The priority tiers are the following:

Priority 1. Contains the highest priority objects and is processed first during a Disaster Recovery run.

Priority 2. Contains objects that are processed after Priority 1 objects.

Priority 3. Contains objects that are processed after Priority 2 objects.

Define the restore location.

For OneDrive and SharePoint objects, you can also use the Fast restore feature if you want to restore the data from the fastest available restore points created by Express backup policies.

When a disaster strikes, click Run Disaster Recovery in the Express Restore page. No further settings are required.

Veeam Data Cloud starts restoring the data according to the Disaster Recovery plan.

Before You Begin

Before you create a Disaster Recovery plan, check the following prerequisites:

Make sure you have an active Premium subscription with Express backup policies.
Any objects you include in the Disaster Recovery plan must be protected by Express backup policies with available restore points.
The user who configures the Disaster Recovery plan must have the OrganizationAdmin or the M365:Administrator roles.

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