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Applications

An application is a type of data that belongs to a resource, such as a user's Mail or OneDrive. Backups run at the application level, so each application has its own backup status, schedule, and recovery points. The Applications page (SaaS > Applications in the Slide Console) lists the applications across all of your tenants.

Application Types

  • Mail: Email, calendar items, contacts, and tasks (To Do) in an Exchange Online mailbox. Belongs to users and shared mailboxes.
  • OneDrive: The files in a user's OneDrive. Belongs to users.
  • SharePoint: The files in a SharePoint site's document libraries. Belongs to sites and groups.
  • Teams: A Microsoft 365 group's team. Belongs to groups.
  • Entra: The tenant's Microsoft Entra ID users, groups, and roles. Belongs to the tenant's Entra resource.

See Backups for details on what's included in each application.

The applications table has the following columns:

  • Type: The application type.
  • Status: The application's status (see below).
  • Resource: The resource the application belongs to.
  • Tenant: The tenant the application belongs to.
  • Schedule Origin: Whether the application uses an inherited schedule or its own.
  • Backup Attempts: The results of the most recent backups.
  • Latest Backup: When the application was last backed up.
  • Created At: When the application was first discovered.

Application Statuses

  • No issues: The application is protected and its backups are succeeding.
  • Needs attention: The latest backup of the application failed. Open it to see why. See Backup Failures.
  • Not protected: The application isn't being backed up.
  • Not provisioned yet: The data source doesn't exist in Microsoft 365 yet (e.g. the user has never signed in to OneDrive). The next discovery after it's created adds it, and backups start from then.
  • Paused: The application or its resource is paused.
  • Paused by tenant: The application's tenant is paused.
  • Archived: The data source no longer exists in Microsoft 365. Backups stop, and its recovery points are kept for the tenant's retention.

Application Details

Click an application to open its details. The Overview tab shows:

  • Actions: Backup Now starts a backup right away (click Cancel Backup to stop it). Browse Files opens the application in the Explorer.
  • Recent Backup Attempts: The results of recent backups, including any failures.
  • Recent Recovery Points: The latest recovery points for the application. From each recovery point's menu, you can Browse Files, Download, create a Share link, or Restore. See Restores.

Application Settings

The Settings tab is available once the application is protected. It lets you change the following:

  • Pause Protection: See Pause.
  • Schedule Backups: Override the inherited schedule for this application. See Schedule Backups.
  • Remove Protection: Stops backups for the application and deletes its data. You'll need to type DELETE to confirm.

Warning

Removing protection removes all data associated with the application, including its backups and recovery points. This cannot be undone.

Pause

You can pause backups for a single application, for example to stop backing up one user's OneDrive while still backing up their mail. Choose a duration (30 minutes up to 1 week, or Indefinitely) under Pause Protection. Set it back to Active to resume. Paused applications keep their recovery points.

To pause all of a resource's applications, pause the resource instead.