new blog post on backing up with Corso on your coffee break (#2006)
## Description new blog post on backing up with Corso on your coffee break ## Does this PR need a docs update or release note? - [ ] ✅ Yes, it's included - [ ] 🕐 Yes, but in a later PR - [x] ⛔ No ## Type of change <!--- Please check the type of change your PR introduces: ---> - [ ] 🌻 Feature - [ ] 🐛 Bugfix - [x] 🗺️ Documentation - [ ] 🤖 Test - [ ] 💻 CI/Deployment - [ ] 🐹 Trivial/Minor ## Issue(s) <!-- Can reference multiple issues. Use one of the following "magic words" - "closes, fixes" to auto-close the Github issue. --> * #<issue> ## Test Plan <!-- How will this be tested prior to merging.--> - [ ] 💪 Manual - [ ] ⚡ Unit test - [ ] 💚 E2E Co-authored-by: Niraj Tolia <ntolia@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: aviator-app[bot] <48659329+aviator-app[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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slug: backups-on-your-coffee-break
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title: "How to Back Up Your Microsoft 365 Data During Your Coffee Break"
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description: "A quick guide to using Corso for data backups"
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authors: nica
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tags: [corso, microsoft 365, backups]
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date: 2023-1-12
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image: ./images/coffee_break.jpg
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It’s 10:00 in the morning, and you need coffee and a snack.
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You know you’re supposed to back up the company’s Microsoft 365 instance, but it takes so long! Surely a quick
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break won’t matter.
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Wrong! While you were in the break room,
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your organization was hit with a malware attack that wiped out many critical files and spreadsheets in minutes.
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Now your cell phone’s ringing off the hook.
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Slapping your forehead with the palm of your hand, you shout,
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“If only backups were faster and easier!”
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Regular backups are increasingly important and must be prioritized; even over your coffee break. A recent study by
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[Arlington Research](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210511005132/en/An-Alarming-85-of-Organizations-Using-Microsoft-365-Have-Suffered-Email-Data-Breaches-Research-by-Egress-Reveals#:~:text=15%25%20of%20organizations%20using%20Microsoft,data%20in%20error%20via%20email.)
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found that 85% of organizations using Microsoft 365 suffered email data breaches in the six months prior to May 2021.
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And it’s not just malware that threatens to corrupt data; downtime can have equally devastating impacts.
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[Two out of every five servers](https://www.veeam.com/blog/data-loss-2022.html)
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experienced an outage over the past 12 months.
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Data can also be lost or corrupted during poorly executed migrations or the cancellation of a software license
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or by human error. And once it’s gone, it’s gone, unless you’ve backed it up.
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Think you can just move stuff back out of the recycling bin? Think again. Ransomware will also clear your recycling bin,
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even Microsoft recommends [emptying it out regularly](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/sharepoint-online-service-description/sharepoint-online-limits).
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Use of other tools like 'holds' [also have their limits](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/sharepoint-online-service-description/sharepoint-online-limits#hold-limits)
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(and really they're intended for e-discovery),
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and are no substitutes for true backups.
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The question really is: why wouldn’t you back up your Microsoft 365 data?
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IDC estimates that [six out of every 10 organizations](https://www.dsm.net/idc-why-backup-for-office-365-is-essential)
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don’t have a data protection plan for their Microsoft 365 data.
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Why? Because, historically, Microsoft 365 backups have been slow,
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tedious and expensive, requiring complex workflows and scripts, and constant supervision:
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- Companies often face physical limitations of their storage devices, such as servers, external hard drives, or other media.
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They may have to choose what data to backup or compromise on how often they back it up.
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- Backups can be time-consuming, especially without automation.
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Often, someone has to monitor the process to address any issues that arise. With their to-do list growing day by day,
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IT security teams must often prioritize more urgent work.
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- Manual backups aren’t just slow and tedious, they’re unreliable. When work is busy, or when your employee’s stomach
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is growling -it may be pushed to the bottom of the priority list.
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Considering these challenges, it’s clear to see why an IT security staffer might put backups on the back burner.
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## A Faster, Easier Way to Back up Your Data
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Fortunately, [Corso](https://corsobackup.io/), a free and open-source tool, is enabling IT administrators to backup all
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their M365 data during their morning coffee break -or while their lunch is in the microwave. Here’s how:
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- Purpose-built for Microsoft 365, Corso provides comprehensive backup and restore workflows that slash backup time and overhead.
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- It’s free: because Corso is 100% open-source. Flexible retention policies reduce storage costs, as well. Corso works
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with any S3-compatible object storage system, including AWS, Google Cloud, Backblaze and Azure Blob.
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- It’s fast! Corso doesn’t use unreliable scripts or workarounds. Instead,
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its automated, high-throughput, high-tolerance backups feature end-to-end encryption, deduplication and compression.
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Corso is written in Go, a modern programming language that came out of Google that has been purpose-built for systems programming.
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A typical Corso backup takes just a few minutes- and you can drink your coffee while it’s running!
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How do you backup your data with Corso? It takes just a few minutes to get started. Check out the [Quick Start](https://corsobackup.io/docs/quickstart/)
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guide for a step-by-step walk through:
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1. Download Corso
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1. Connect to Microsoft 365
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1. Create a Corso repository
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1. Create your backup
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And here’s my [video](https://youtu.be/mlwfEbPqD94) showing how the steps take less than 4 minutes.
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Yep, that’s it. With these few steps, Corso protects your team’s data from accidental loss, deletion, server downtime,
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security threats and ransomware. Don’t leave Microsoft 365 data protection to chance
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-and use your coffee break to relax instead of
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worry!
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Give [Corso](https://corsobackup.io/) a try, and then tell us what you think. Find the Corso community on [Discord](https://discord.gg/63DTTSnuhT).
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