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slug: tutorial-corso-videos
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title: "Backup Basics: A Video Tour of Using Free Open-Source Corso to Protect your Microsoft 365 Data"
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description: "By watching my
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four short videos, you’ll be set up and on your way to backing up all your Microsoft 365
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data in less than 20 minutes. That’s shorter than most meetings!"
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authors: nica
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tags: [corso, microsoft 365, backups]
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date: 2023-3-15
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image: ./images/vhs.jpg
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---
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Each day, you and your colleagues put hours of work into creating, sending, and
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receiving all kinds of critical data: hundreds of emails, Word documents,
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spreadsheets, and more. You and your company want to protect your
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data from everything that could go wrong, such as server outages, cyberattacks,
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accidental deletions and anything that could cause you to lose valuable work,
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time, and money. Even small instances of data loss cost businesses an
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[average of between $18,000 and $35,000](https://invenioit.com/continuity/cost-of-data-loss/)
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– and that’s with losses of fewer than 100 files! That number can grow into the
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millions for large-scale losses and breaches.
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My question to you is, how can you protect your data without spending countless hours and thousands of dollars?
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The answer? Corso, a free open-source backup tool that helps you safeguard your
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teams’ Microsoft 365 data, and it’s really quick to get started! By watching my
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four short videos, you’ll be set up and on your way to backing up all your Microsoft 365
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data in less than 20 minutes. That’s shorter than most meetings!
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## Get started with Corso for Microsoft 365 backups
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As you install and set up Corso, take a look at my
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[instructional video](https://youtu.be/mlwfEbPqD94) and
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[Quick Start](https://corsobackup.io/docs/quickstart/) guide. Together, we walk
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you through downloading Corso, setting up an AWS S3 bucket with user access
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permissions, establishing Microsoft 365 access, and initiating a repository.
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From there, you can create your first backup and be ready to interact with it
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within minutes.
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mlwfEbPqD94"
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title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay;
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clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
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allowfullscreen></iframe>
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## Backup all your exchange data with Corso
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Now that you’ve got a handle on Corso basics, you’re ready to tackle more
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involved data backups. [Watch](https://youtu.be/R1AOc2xz2Rg) how you can back up
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data from multiple users and specify desired data types after connecting to an
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existing S3 bucket. The status and user associated with each backup will
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automatically display, and backups for each user have individual IDs. With
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Corso, you can back up specific users’ data or all user data, delete data for
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users that are no longer needed, and request a list of all past backups.
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R1AOc2xz2Rg"
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title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay;
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clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
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allowfullscreen></iframe>
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## Explore the details of your exchange server backup
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After completing your first backup, dig into the details of your data through a
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variety of commands and filters. See how quick it is to get information about
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different data types, locations, and other attributes such as event type or
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email subject line. The steps in this [video](https://youtu.be/mweAUDhUE7I) are
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great for restoring only the components of a backup you’re interested in, like
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non-recurring events for a specific user.
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mweAUDhUE7I"
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title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay;
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clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
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allowfullscreen></iframe>
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## Create local Microsoft 365 backups using MinIO
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For quick, low-latency backup testing, you can use MinIO to run a Corso Microsoft 365
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backup through a local S3 bucket. While you don’t want to rely on this as your
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primary backup location, it's a cost effective option for testing that gives
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you full control. See my [video](https://youtu.be/ABIiVufyOkM) on local Microsoft 365
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backups for a step-by-step guide on this Corso feature.
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ABIiVufyOkM"
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title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay;
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clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
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allowfullscreen></iframe>
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## Restoring from your Backups
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We can hope this day will never come. Backups ideally are stored for a period of
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time, then rotated out, and never used. But should you deal with a corruption of
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data, ransomware attack, or other unforeseen circumstance, it’ll be time to use
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Corso to restore from your backups.
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In this last video I demonstrate both total restorations for a user or group of
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users, and restoring single records with the `corso restore` command.
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tT0XDAky9fM"
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title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay;
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clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
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allowfullscreen></iframe>
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---
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Remember, don’t leave your data vulnerable to cyberattacks, accidental
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deletion, server outages, or any of the countless other sources of data loss.
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Try out [Corso](https://corsobackup.io/) for your company’s Microsoft 365 backup needs,
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and be sure to check out my Corso video
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[playlist](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSukexZlj1V0D0xGV2ON-MWRmPpLWi6hK)
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on YouTube for more tips and tricks on protecting your data! Please come find me
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on [Discord](https://discord.gg/63DTTSnuhT), join our discussions, and give us
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your feedback. See you there!
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