Good day,

I'm looking for good Linux based Office 365 backup tools.

I tried doing a search but didn't come up with anything useful.

Does anyone know of any decent Office 365 backup software for Linux?

Have you tried Libre Office? Or done a search for alternatives? This string in a search turns up lots of options.
I don't understand what you mean by "office 365 backup tools" other than possibly alternatives to use.

In linux you are not limited to the online and often expensive tools provided by M$.

I know nothing about Office 365 other than that I would never use it, though I know that some persons must.

It might help to know more about where these files that you want backed up are stored. Are they somewhere in some Microsoft "cloud" or are they on localhost?

I would be storing the backups locally on a physical computer.

For example. Veeam has a Windows product that backs up an Office 365 tennant which includes Email, Sharepoint, Onedrive and a few other things. They don't have a Linux version though and I cant seem to find anything.

I'm trying to get back into Linux and so I was wondering if anyone definitely knows of any Linux backup products that do the same thing.

My guess would be that there isn't one, because creating one requires access to information and resources that you have to pay Microsoft and sign contracts for.

You're on a hiding to nothing here. My strong advice is: GIVE UP!

You can't access office 365 in console mode, because every page is peppered with javascript, and they miught change it tomorrow if they ever decide to fix one of the countless bugs in that thing. When you find a way of accessing it in console mode, folks here might make suggestions.

If it is absolutely necessary that your files are available everywhere (as they are with Office 365) then you can achieve the same or similar with dropbox or equivalent and working with the documents locally and saving or copying them to the cloud.

That eliminates the $ you pay to M$ as well as increasing your pc security since you are not restricted to using windows.

Thanks I will have to check out DropBox.

Microsoft claimed to me in the past that they backup Office 365 but the problem is their backups are not efficient if you have to do a restore. And I would hate to have to restore a whole email box just to retrieve 1 or 2 deleted emails. Same with anything Sharepoint related.

I wish that Veeam had a Linux based version of their Office 365 backup software because their Windows version is great. You can do granular restores without having to restore a whole inbox, or entire Sharepoint site for example.

I finally got around to looking at Drop Box. Looks like its got a lot of good stuff for working with files remotely but not quite what I'm looking for.

What I'm mostly interested in is backing up Office 365 email and Sharepoint sites and perhaps one-drive but I prefer to use a Linux based backup utility if there is one.

TBH, you're never going to find a Linux 'client' for an essential function of a core Microsoft cash-cow. You sound as though you're quite heavily-invested in the MS-specific, Windows-only infrastructure.

My view? If you need to use Windows-based stuff, keep Windows around.....preferably on a separate machine. There IS the option of "dual-booting" with Windows and Linux on the same machine, but it's not one I'd recommend; there's regular 'issues' every time one or the other of them performs updates, often affecting the bootloader.

I'll echo other suggestions; backup your stuff to a 3rd-party cloud-storage provider while actually IN Windows. Many of these have Linux clients (I run "Puppy" Linux, and Bionicpup64 which I'm in ATM has the MEGA.nz 'sync' client installed). Runs flawlessly.....and MEGA.nz offer around 50 GB of storage for free, far more than many of the others do.

Mike.

+1 on mega.nz and giving up on finding duplicates of M$ in Any unix. Unix was there first, anyhow. M$ should be copying us (and they do), not the ther way around. The entire BSD networking stack is ported to Darwin64 & windows.

I concur with the responses given - and the tenets thereon.

If you're looking to back up files that you have created, then simply copy the My Documents folder to an external source drive.

If you're looking to back up the entire OS, then simply copy the drive image to an external source (I like Resuezilla 2.2).

Great idea, You know what You said ? Your idea is "Just go to the misrosoft datacenter, take the whole cloud , and copy it on other disc. Great! Better to be silent if you don't know what you are talking about.

Sharepoint is a ONLINE document cloud (similar to Gsuite) , yourt great idea to copy "my documents" folder is great !

I can definitely relate to your quest for a Linux-based Office 365 backup tool. It's surprising how many options there are for Windows, but the Linux side seems a bit lacking sometimes. While I haven't personally tried any Office 365 backup tools for Linux yet, I did stumble upon something interesting while researching cloud backup for google workspace. It seems like there's a bit more versatility in that realm. Have you considered exploring options that cater to Google Workspace backup needs? Maybe there's some overlap or similar solutions that could work for Office 365 as well.