Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection
- Add users and roles
- API permissions
- Add connectors
- Overview of adding connectors
- Add Exchange Online connectors
- Configure the capture scope for Exchange connectors
- Configure the capture scope for Exchange connectors
- Add SharePoint Online connectors
- Add Teams site collections connectors
- Add OneDrive connectors
- Add Teams chat connectors
- Add Google Drive connectors
- Add Gmail connectors
- Add Salesforce connectors
- Add Box connectors
- Add Email/Messages
- Apps Consent Grant Utility
- Add Retention policies
- Perform backups
- Manage backed-up data
- Backup limitations
- Perform restores using Administration portal
- Restore SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams Sites and data
- Restore Teams chat messages and Teams channel conversations
- Restore Box data
- Restore Google Drive data
- About the Salesforce Data, Metadata, and CRM Content restore
- Limitations of Salesforce Metadata backup and restore
- About Entra ID (Azure AD) objects and records restore
- Restore dashboard
- Add Tiering policy
- Add Tagging polices
- Discovey
- General administrative tasks
- Manage Stors (Storages)
- Managing Scopes
- Known Issues
Add SharePoint Online connectors
The following are the key features of Veritas Alta SaaS Protection SharePoint Online connector:
You can backup and restore the following for SharePoint Online items:
Documents
List items
Versions
Site pages
Site collections
Sub-site settings
Site and sub-site columns
Site and sub-site content types
List settings
List columns
List content types
Permission objects such as groups
Role definitions
Role assignments
Define specific data types, versions, permissions, columns, and content types to back up.
Define a Delete policy to manage storage by removing unnecessary items from the source SharePoint Online environment while retaining backups in Veritas Alta SaaS Protection.
Define a Stubbing policy to replace original items with stubs (shortcuts) in SharePoint Online environment, which helps reduce storage usage while maintaining access to data.
The SharePoint connector can back up all SharePoint site collections that are not associated with Microsoft 365 Group and Team sites (excluding the Communication sites). The Microsoft 365 Group and Team data can be backed up using the Teams site collection connector using the
option.To add a SharePoint Online connector
- Access the Administration portal.
The home page of the Administration portal is displayed.
- Click Administration.
- On the left, click Connectors.
- Click + New Connector.
- Click SharePoint.
- Do the following to configure the general settings for the connector:
In the Connector name field, enter a name for a connector.
The Type field displays the connector type.
The Stor dropdown list shows the designated storage for storing the backed-up data. If you want to change the Stor, you must contact Veritas Support.
The Machine field displays the Connector service to host this connector. If required, you can select the appropriate one from the list.
You must contact Veritas Support for this change.
Optionally, enable the Enable email notification option if you want to receive notifications when the predefined error count threshold is exceeded during the backup process. Enabling this option adds an additional tab, Email notification, to the job creation workflow.
Click Next.
- Configure the capture scope.
- Configure credentials.
If you want to use the Manual mode.
If no or less number of apps are displayed on the page when you use the M365 App Registration mode.
If the status of the assigned app is displayed as Inactive.
- Configure the custom backup policy.
- If you want to configure the Delete policy, click Enable this feature and on the Delete policy section, do the following:
Important: Before enabling the Delete policy, you must read the SharePoint Delete policy guidelines to understand its implications. See Points to consider when configuring Delete policy for SharePoint environments .
Select the Items <Last modified> date older than <--> days check box.
Enter the number of days to specify the modified items that must be backed up.
Note:
This option is applied regardless of the items' size and type.
Select the Items size larger than __<--> check box to back up the items that are larger than the specified size.
Note:
This option is applied regardless of the items' last modified date and type.
Select the <Include/Exclude>items of type <Enter a file extension> check box and enter the extensions that should be included or excluded.
Note:
This option is applied regardless of the items' Last modified status and size.
Note:
This option is not applicable to the Google Drive connector.
Use the Locations to exclude option to exclude specific folders.
Any folder that matches the provided name is excluded from the backup with its subfolders. The matching process is case-insensitive, and wildcards can be used.
The exclusion criteria that is set in the Folder filter section for this connector take precedence over the criteria that is set here.
Click +Add location.
On the Location name page, enter the name of the folder that is to be excluded.
Click Add.
The folders to be excluded are listed at the bottom of this section.
- If you want to configure the Stubbing policy, on the Stubbing policy section, do the following:
Important: Before enabling the Stubbing policy, you must read the SharePoint Stubbing policy guidelines to understand its implications. See Points to consider when configuring Stubbing policies for SharePoint environments.
Select the Items <Last modified> date older than <--> days check box.
Enter the number of days to specify the modified items that must be backed up.
Note:
This option is applied regardless of the items' size and type.
Select the Items size larger than __<--> check box to back up the items that are larger than the specified size.
Note:
This option is applied regardless of the items' last modified date and type.
Select the <Include/Exclude> items of type <Enter a file extension> check box and enter the extensions that should be included or excluded.
Note:
This option is applied regardless of the items' Last modified status and size.
Note:
This option is not applicable to the Google Drive connector.
Use the Locations to exclude option to exclude specific folders.
Any folder that matches the provided name is excluded from the backup with its subfolders. The matching process is case-insensitive, and wildcards can be used.
The exclusion criteria that is set in the Folder filter section for this connector take precedence over the criteria that is set here.
Click +Add location.
On the Location name page, enter the name of the folder that is to be excluded.
Click Add.
The folders to be excluded are listed at the bottom of this section.
- Click Next.
- (Optional) Do the following to configure the next backup schedule:
Click + Add task.
On the Add task page, do the following:
Enter the time to start the backup in the Local start time field.
Enter the time duration in hours in the Duration in hours field. The backup stops if it exceeds the allotted time.
In such a case, on the next backup, the remaining items from the previous backup and the new items are backed up.
Set the recurrence option for the backup schedule Recurrence section.
Click Add.
- Click Next.
(Optional) If you have enabled the Enable email notification options option while configuring the general settings to receive notifications, do the following:
Click Enable this feature > enter the email address.
Select the Send an email when error count exceeds check box > enter the number.
Click Next.
- Do any of the following:
Click the corresponding Edit option to edit the configuration.
Click Save & Backup to save the connector and initiate the backup.
After the backup starts, you can go to the Connectors page to view the progress of the backup. The status of the connector must be displayed as Running.
Click Save to save the connector. You can go to the Connectors page to view the status of the connector. The status must be displayed as Created.
If the assigned apps are not active, the status is displayed as Pending app activation, and you cannot run backups using this connector. You are required to grant the admin consent for the assigned apps.