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lxsw20

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#288487 3-Jul-2021 12:25

Hi,

I'm looking at ways to back up a family PC to the cloud.

With the business editions of O365 you can do a profile redirection to OneDrive and have desktop/documents etc stored there. Is this the same with the consumer versions?

Looking at buying a family licence, because it makes sense if you've got more than one device.

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#2738379 3-Jul-2021 12:31

You can point your Documents/Pictures/Music etc... folders and really any others you want to be synced with OneDrive Personal/Home. It's not actually a backup, but does provide some redundancy.

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#2738382 3-Jul-2021 12:35

Backup is the wrong word for sure, it's a sync. Mostly to protect from HDD failure.

Is there any versioning or accidental file deletion retrieval built in to OneDrive?

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#2738413 3-Jul-2021 14:22

From MS
"If you're signed into OneDrive with a Microsoft account, items in the recycle bin are automatically deleted 30 days after they're put there."

I have used recovery in the past as I do a lot of bulk naming/organising family photos and my partner deletes the crap ones and often needs to restore the odd one from being too trigger happy.

File versioning is OK as well - Right click file and choose version history. Has the option to restore or download it.
Ive got a spreadsheet going back to 2018 with about 15 versions available.

*Both options require logging into onedrive via web.
*from memory if a shared file is deleted it is in "owners" recycle bin