How to Protect Efficiently Your Office 365 Data?
Protecting your organization with KODO is simple, yet effective. Storware developed several new functions to provide data protection for Microsoft Office 365 business users.
Intrduction
KODO for Microsoft Office 365 is a solution that protects your business data by performing daily backups of OneDrive for Business* to ensure business continuity and to meet compliance demands. KODO protects your critical data from loss due to ransomware, malware, other threats, or just simple user errors.
Protecting your organization with KODO is simple, yet effective. It provides granular data restoration and enables administrators and end users to restore data functions, reducing costs and meeting RTOs.
Let us present the architecture of solution, and instruction how to plan deployment of the KODO solution for Office 365.
The following features are available in KODO for Office 365:
- Office 365 OneDrive data backup
- Data versioning
- Scalable architecture
- Backup task workload is distributed between KODO Agents
- RESTful API that can be used to integrate KODO with other solutions used by organization
Components
KODO for Microsoft Office 365 solution includes three components: Agent for Office 365, KODO Server Service, and KODO Client
Agent for Office 365 – Linux service, that can run on KODO Server or other Linux machine(s); this is proxy for backups from Microsoft Office cloud.
KODO Server Service – It’s an integral part of KODO Server. It is intended to manage backup proxies (Agent), and control configuration settings.
KODO Client – Windows UI client intended to restore data protected by KODO solution.
Architecture
This section describes the KODO for Microsoft Office 365 architecture in more details. KODO offers scalable architecture and workload balance for Microsoft Office 365 backup, as shown in the figure below:
And all of them can be accomplished using CLI or Web UI (shown below):
KODO Server is a central management point, here you will set up access to your Microsoft Office 365 organization and manage the process of making backup copies. The server connects to the agents and distributes tasks between them.
Agents are components that are responsible for performing backup copies. You can install and configure many Agents to optimize backup tasks performance. Each Agent can perform backup from one or several Office365 organizations. Agent reports to the server that it is ready to perform the task. Agent reports to the server that is ready to accept the task, KODO server distributes tasks equally among available agents.
Microsoft Office365 Organization Specifies the data to be protected. One organization can be backed up by many Agents.
Task is a set of rules and office365 data which are protected by KODO solution.
In the figure above single Agent 1 is processing backup tasks for two different Office 365 organizations, two other agents process data of individual organizations.
Then data can be restored by individual users using KODO Client installed on their desktop or mobile devices.
*Support for Office365 Exchange is scheduled for KODO for Office 365 ver. 2.0
Article by Patryk Bobak, Professional Services Architect at Storware