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  2. Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide
  3. Protect SharePoint sites and data
  4. Run the Delete and Stubbing policies to the SharePoint Online environment
Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide

Run the Delete and Stubbing policies to the SharePoint Online environment

Before running policies, and See Configure Delete policy for SharePoint Online and guidelines.

Important: The connector should not be configured for incremental backup. You can contact Cohesity Support for confirmation.

To run Delete and Stubbing policies to the SharePoint Online environment

  1. Access the Administration portal URL.
  2. Click Administration > Connectors.
  3. Click within the row of the connector and click Backup.
  4. On the Backup now page, do the following:
    • Select the All items option to perform a full backup.

      You can use this option to run the Delete and Stubbing policies at the source location, after the first full backup is completed.

    • Click Backup.

    Note:

    The New and changes items options can be used to perform incremental backup.

Note:

The time it takes to perform a backup can vary depending on the size of the data being backed up.

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