Restore The OneDrive Files And Folder To Any Microsoft 365 User Or The Local Computer

Xopero ONE allows you to secure 4 different resources of Microsoft 365, OneDrive is one of them. This article describes how to recover OneDrive data from the backup, what are the restore destinations, and what are the general possibilities while performing this process.

Restore view

To open the restore view go to the Microsoft 365 tab and click Manage & Restore button near your organization entry to see the list of organization users.

Find the user whose data you want to restore and click the Restore button in the same row.

That will display another aside, where you have to select a specific backup plan and version, then click the Restore button, which will lead to you Select data to restore view.

OneDrive data restore

In Select data to restore view click the OneDrive tab, which will lead you to the restore tree. Expand the OneDrive & root directory using the + button to see your files and folders.

The system allows you to accurately indicate the data you want to recover, you can select everything - all files and folders - simply by using Restore All button, but you can also mark checkboxes next to specific files/folders and click Restore selected button.

After selecting one of these options Xopero ONE will display another aside called Restore data, where you can select restore destination and additional settings.

Restore to any Microsoft 365 user

In order to restore the data to Microsoft 365 user click the Edit button(Step 1) next to the Restore to section and select Microsoft 365 account(Step 2).

Select the user, which will be the restore destination, and click the Save button.

With the next step, you need to select Restore directory by using one of the available options: New directory or Original directory.

New directory option will create another directory on your OneDrive called Xopero_, which will contain all the data you restored.

The Original directory setting, as the name suggests will restore the data to it's original location. However, you can decide to Overwrite existing OneDrive files and to Create a copy of overwritten OneDrive data(disabled, not available yet).

The next section is Restore settings, where you can Reduce bandwidth usage to the selected speed. A Device used to restore the data is the last step, where all you need to do is to select the device, which will be responsible for the restoration process. If you're willing to change the default one, then click the Change button and select the different device in the Select resource view.

After filling out the form click the Start now button, which will run the restore process. You can track the progress of this process through the Tasks tab.

Restore to the local computer

In order to restore the data to the local device click the Edit button(Step 1) next to the Restore to section and select Device(Step 2).

Select the device, which will be the restore destination, and click the Save button.

The next section, after selecting the device is Restore directory, where you can select the exact destination path of your OneDrive files. Click Select directory to restore the data to(Step 1) button

Then select directory - the exact restore destination(Step 2) - and click Apply button(Step 3) The last section is Restore settings, where you can Reduce bandwidth usage to the selected speed.

After filling out the form click the Start now button to run the restore process. You can track the progress of this process through the Tasks tab.