Microsoft 365 Backup.

Microsoft doesn't back up your data. We do.

Most businesses assume Microsoft backs up their emails, Teams messages, and SharePoint files. They don't. If data is deleted, corrupted, or encrypted by ransomware, it's gone, unless you have KAVIX.

The Numbers Don't Lie

Microsoft operates on a shared responsibility model. They keep the platform running, but protecting your data is your responsibility. Most firms don't discover this until it is too late.

93%
of M365 data loss is caused by accidental deletion or user error

The most common cause of data loss is not ransomware. It is a user emptying the wrong folder. Microsoft's recycle bin won't save you.

30 days
Microsoft's recycle bin limit, not a real backup

Once that window passes, deleted data is gone permanently. There's no support ticket that brings it back.

100%
of KAVIX clients have full M365 backup coverage

Every managed client gets automatic daily backups across their entire M365 environment, from day one.

What's Actually Covered

Microsoft's shared responsibility model means they protect the infrastructure: availability, uptime, global redundancy. What they do not protect is your data. Deleted emails, overwritten SharePoint documents, wiped Teams conversations: once they're gone, Microsoft cannot recover them for you.

KAVIX deploys a dedicated M365 backup solution that takes daily snapshots of your entire environment. Every mailbox, every file, and every channel, retained securely and available for granular restore at any point in time.

This is purpose-built cloud-to-cloud backup that operates independently of Microsoft's own retention policies.

  • Exchange Online: email, calendars, and contacts
  • Microsoft Teams: messages, files, and channels
  • SharePoint Online: sites, lists, and documents
  • OneDrive for Business: all user files
  • Point-in-time recovery for any historical date
  • Granular item-level restore (single email, single file)
  • Automatic daily backups, no manual intervention required
  • Retention for up to 1 year (extendable on request)

What Microsoft Actually Covers (And Doesn't)

Microsoft is transparent about this in their own documentation. Most businesses simply haven't read it.

WHAT MICROSOFT PROVIDES
  • ✓ Global infrastructure availability and uptime SLA
  • ✓ Geographic data redundancy across datacentres
  • ✓ Basic recycle bin (30 days for most items)
  • ✓ Version history (limited, varies by plan)
  • ✗ Recovery of user-deleted data after retention window
  • ✗ Ransomware recovery for encrypted M365 data
  • ✗ Compliance-grade long-term backup retention
  • ✗ Granular restore of individual emails or files
WHAT KAVIX ADDS
  • ✓ Automated daily backups across all M365 services
  • ✓ Point-in-time recovery: restore data from any past date
  • ✓ Ransomware recovery: restore to pre-attack clean state
  • ✓ Granular restore: single email, single file, single folder
  • ✓ Compliance-grade retention for up to 1 year (extendable)
  • ✓ Malicious insider protection: recover overwritten or purged data
  • ✓ Fully managed: monitored and verified by KAVIX daily
  • ✓ Audit trail for regulatory and compliance requirements

When Backup Saves Your Business

These aren't theoretical risks. Every one of these scenarios has happened to a firm that assumed Microsoft had them covered.

Ransomware Encrypts Your M365 Data

A member of staff clicks a malicious link. The ransomware variant targets cloud-synced files, encrypting OneDrive and SharePoint content before defences respond. Without backup, every document your team has ever created is either ransomed or gone. With KAVIX, you restore to yesterday's clean snapshot.

Accidental File Deletion

A project folder containing three years of client work is permanently deleted, recycle bin emptied, Microsoft's 30-day window passed. Support tickets to Microsoft return nothing. KAVIX restores the entire folder from the backup taken before the deletion, down to individual file versions.

Malicious Insider

A departing employee, given notice, deliberately deletes their mailbox, wipes their OneDrive, and removes key documents from SharePoint on their last day. Microsoft cannot recover data purged by a licensed user acting within their permissions. KAVIX can, restoring everything to the state it was in before the purge.

Compliance Audit Requires Historical Data

A regulator or solicitor requests email correspondence and documents from 18 months ago. If you're relying solely on Microsoft, anything beyond their native retention window, or anything that was deleted within it, is unrecoverable. KAVIX backup provides the audit trail and historical data access that compliance demands.

Don't Find Out the Hard Way Your Data Wasn't Backed Up.

M365 backup is included as standard with every KAVIX managed service engagement. Talk to us today about protecting your business's most critical data.

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