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Hi all,

I am looking for an external backup tool that can backup the complete dynamics environment; apps, entitities, records etc.
Adittionaly it should fulfill the following criteria:

  1. Store backups > 2 months
  2. Restore backups between different Dynamics environments (Sandbox & Production for instance)
  3. Data is stored on EU servers

I first looked at Avepoint, which met criteria 1 and 3. While Skyvia met only 1 and 2.

Does anyone know any alternatives that meet all three criteria?

Thanks in advance!

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: External backup

    Thank you for the extra information Henry!

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: External backup

    Keepit does not seem mature yet (lot of information missing on their website) but advantage might be promising, thanks for the tip!

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    Henry J. 5,237 on at
    RE: External backup

    Hello Barl,

    Not sure about your detailed requirements, but here are a few useful resources:

    Environment backups are indeed stored only for 28 days for production environments, and 7 days for sandbox environments.
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/backup-restore-environments

    To retain data longer in a separate location, you can investigate the "Export to Data Lake" feature:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/export-to-data-lake

    For your customizations, we advise you to have a source control in place:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/

    Henry

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    Linn Zaw Win 3,407 on at
    RE: External backup

    Have you looked into the following two services? One is based in Denmark and another in UK (but they might offer the service hosted in EU)

    https://www.advantage.co.uk/managed-services/dynamics-365-backup-recovery

    https://www.keepit.com/services/backup-microsoft-dynamics-365/

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: External backup

    Thanks for your reply Linn, I am using the online environment but I am looking for more retention time than the standard functionality. In the post it should be months* apologies

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    Linn Zaw Win 3,407 on at
    RE: External backup

    Is it for on-prem or online D365 environment?

    What kind of duration are you looking for with "Store backups > 2 weeks"? Are you looking for something like unlimited retention?

    For Dynamics 365 online, backups of production environments with a database and Dynamics 365 applications deployed are retained for up to 28 days. (which is > 2 weeks)

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