2 Free Ways: Office 365 Backup to Wasabi in 2024

• Why Make Office 365 Backup to Wasabi?
• Office 365 Backup to Wasabi by MultCloud Cloud Backup [Automatic & Fast]
  ►Backup Office 365 Files to Wasabi by Cloud Transfer
  ►Save Emails from Office 365 to Wasabi
• Office 365 Backup to Wasabi by Uploading [Manual & Slow]
• Conclusion

Why Make Office 365 Backup to Wasabi?

To understand why some users make their Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) backup to Wasabi, first of all, let’s learn something about Wasabi.

Wasabi is a cloud storage service that allows users to store and access their files, photos, videos, or other content online. For years, Wasabi has been popular for its affordable price, low-latency storage, and high-standard protection. Whether you want to use Wasabi for personal or for business, it can perform well. Moreover, Wasabi claims that it is the only cloud storage purpose-built for large enterprises and MSPs.

After having a basic impression of Wasabi, it’s time to show some benefits of backing up data to Wasabi from the following 3 aspects.

Now you must know what Wasabi is and why people choose to backup Microsoft 365 to Wasabi. But how to do that? The next sections will show you 2 ways to backup Office 365. An automatic way via MultCloud and a manual way by uploading files.

Office 365 Backup to Wasabi by MultCloud Cloud Backup [Automatic & Fast]

Since Office 365 is a cloud-based suite of productivity tools and services, it includes many other apps like OneDrive, Outlook, and SharePoint. If you only want to move some files to Wasabi or save emails to Wasabi, MultCloud is undoubtedly a good helper. MultCloud allows you to add different cloud drives and email clients to it so that you can manage all your cloud files and emails just on one website. To make Office 365 backup to Wasabi, you can use the "Cloud Transfer" and "Email Migration" functions.

Backup Office 365 Files to Wasabi by Cloud Transfer

Step 1: Open the MultCloud website and create a MultCloud account for free.

Step 2: Click “Add Cloud” in the left bar and then select the icons of OneDrive and Wasabi. After logging in to your OneDrive and Wasabi accounts, the two clouds are added to MultCloud.

Step 3: Select “Cloud Backup”, choose OneDrive in the left box, and choose Wasabi in the right box. 

Step 4: Open Schedule under the left box, choose the backup frequency by your needs, and tick the box beside Schedule. Then click “Backup Now” and your OneDrive will be automatically backed up to Wasabi.

When the backup process is complete, you can choose to restore the files to the source cloud. If you backup the files for times, you can even select the version to restore.

Save Emails from Office 365 to Wasabi

You can also move some emails on Office 365 to Wasabi with the MultCloud function - Email Migration. It allows you to migrate multiple emails at the same time and you can choose to  migrate with or without attachments. Also, Email Migration has the "Schedule" to schedule your task and the "Email Filter" to select emails. 

Step 1: Add Outlook to MultCloud after having a MultCloud account. First, click "Add Email" and the Outlook icon. Then, enter your Office 365 account and allow MultCloud to access the emails of this Office account.

Step 2: Click on "Email Migration" and choose Outlook and Wasabi in the boxes. Then, you can check the migration settings in "Options". After that, click "Migrate Now" to initiate the task. 

Office 365 Backup to Wasabi by Uploading [Manual & Slow]

Except for MultCloud, you can backup files on Microsoft 365 to Wasabi by uploading. This way may not be as recommended as the first one because the manual uploading process relies much on the network. If your network connection is unstable, it may waste time. Also, you have to download the Office 365 desktop apps or the files on the Office 365 cloud to your computer before uploading to Wasabi which takes up the computer storage.

To be more practical, you can try both of these 2 ways and compare them to decide which one is better. The steps for uploading files to Wasabi are shown below. But first of all, you have to download Office 365 app, so that you can select the files in File Explorer.

Step 1: Enter the Wasabi website and log in to your Wasabi account.

Step 2: Click “Buckets” in the left bar and choose or create a folder to save the files you want to back up.

Step 3: Open the selected folder and click “UPLOAD FILES” in the upper-right corner. Here you have 2 options to upload files. One is “Drag & Drop Files and Folders” and the other one is “Browse Files”.

Step 4: If you choose “Drag & Drop Files and Folders”, you have to drag the files or folders from your computer and drop them in the box. Or, if you click the “Browse Files” button, you will select the files in File Explorer. Then click “START UPLOAD” and your files will be backed up to Wasabi.

Conclusion

You must know the 3 benefits of backing up files to Wasabi and acquire 2 solutions on how to make Office 365 backup to Wasabi. As you can see, using MultCloud to do the backup can cover 2 aspects: files to Wasabi and emails to Wasabi. Besides, the MultCloud process is highly automatic and you don't have to spend much time on it. Moreover, you can use MultCloud to backup more cloud files like SharePoint to G Suite.

When you try the first method, you can also use other functions of MultCloud, such as Cloud Transfer and Cloud Sync. To transfer files from OneDrive to Wasabi, Cloud Transfer can provide you with a brand new experience by which you don’t need to upload and download files and the files won’t be lost during the transfer process.