One Veeam Backup for M365 policy. One retention window. One drill.
A Pune NBFC found out during an audit that its M365 retention had quietly lapsed six months earlier. Full story below.
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 at a glance
Why Veeam anchors most Indian backup for microsoft 365 estates.
- Who makes it
- Veeam Software Group GmbH. Majority-owned by Insight Partners since 2020; Microsoft took an equity stake in February 2025.
- What it covers
- Microsoft 365 mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams, plus VMware, Hyper-V, physical servers and cloud workloads under one licensing model.
- India price band
- Roughly ₹1 lakh to ₹5 lakh a year for a typical mid-size deployment, priced per workload on the Veeam Universal License.*
- Who it fits
- Any Indian business that treats Microsoft 365 as its system of record and has not separately tested a mailbox restore in the last year.
- Who should look elsewhere
- Teams already fully committed to one vendor’s stack end to end, or shops with fewer than 10 mailboxes where a lighter tool covers the gap.
- What we have seen go wrong
- A retention window set once at deployment and never revisited, so a mailbox that should have been recoverable for a year is quietly gone after ninety days because nobody adjusted the default.
The Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 ranges Sirius Star supplies
Pick the range that matches the use case. We size the mix in the free 30-minute review.
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
Backs up Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams into a separate repository outside Microsoft’s own data centres. Restores a single mailbox or file, not the whole tenant.
- Point-in-time mailbox and file restore
- Runs alongside Microsoft’s own retention, does not replace it
- Immutable storage option outside the Microsoft 365 boundary
Veeam Data Platform
The wider estate tool, for VMware, Hyper-V and physical servers sitting next to the M365 estate. Foundation, Advanced and Premium editions scale with it.
- One console for servers, VMs and M365 together
- Instant VM recovery during a production outage
- Sold per workload, not per socket, since the licensing change
Veeam Data Cloud Vault
Fully managed, immutable object storage for the backup copy a ransomware attack cannot touch, hosted outside the customer’s own domain admin account.
- Air-gapped from the primary M365 tenant
- Retention lock holds the copy for a set period
- Sized by the GB, not by a separate licence
Veeam ONE + Recovery Orchestrator
Monitoring and one-click DR runbooks for estates past the single-admin stage, usually added once the backup footprint crosses a few hundred workloads.
- Alerts before a job silently stops completing
- Documented, testable DR runbooks, not a slide deck
- Fits estates already running Data Platform
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 vs Commvault, Cohesity, Veritas
All four are honest choices. Most Indian buyers land on the first option for service depth and ecosystem fit.
| Brand | Where it wins | Best fit |
|---|---|---|
| Veeam | Broadest hypervisor and SaaS coverage under one licence, a 10th straight year as a Gartner Leader for Backup and Data Protection Platforms. | Mixed M365 + VMware/Hyper-V estates that want one console and one vendor relationship. |
| Commvault | Deeper e-discovery and compliance tooling built for regulated, audit-heavy estates. | BFSI and government accounts that already run Commvault elsewhere. |
| Cohesity | A converged backup-and-storage appliance, so there is less separate hardware to rack and patch. | Estates ready to refresh ageing storage and backup together in one project. |
| Veritas NetBackup | A longer track record at very large, multi-petabyte BFSI-scale estates, now under Cohesity ownership since December 2024. | The largest India estates already standardised on NetBackup policies, tape libraries and multi-decade retention schedules. |
How a Sirius Star Veeam procurement runs
Free 30 minute review first. Then a written quote in 24 working hours.
Mailbox and workload count
Free 30 minute call. We count mailboxes, OneDrive/SharePoint sites, and any VMs or physical servers next to the M365 tenant.
Retention and immutability design
A retention window that survives an offboarding mistake or a ransomware event, not just Microsoft’s own recycle bin.
Repository sizing, Mumbai option
Backup copy sized and, where residency matters, hosted in a Mumbai region rather than a generic default.
Written quote
A sized quote lands in 24 working hours, licence tier and repository cost broken out separately.
Buying Veeam Backup for M365 in India
The deeper read for IT heads planning a Veeam rollout: licensing tiers explained without the marketing language, a retention-window worksheet, and the Mumbai-repository question to ask before you sign.
- The full Pune NBFC story
- VB365 vs full Data Platform, side by side
- A retention-window worksheet you can fill in before the call
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 India FAQ
Common questions about this brand for Indian buyers. Hover any underlined term for a plain-English definition.
Doesn’t Microsoft 365 already back up my mailboxes?
No. Microsoft’s recycle bin and litigation hold protect against accidental deletion for a limited window, not against a ransomware attack, a malicious admin, or a retention policy that quietly lapses. Veeam Backup for M365 keeps a separate, indexed copy outside the Microsoft 365 tenant that you control the retention on.
What does Veeam Backup for M365 cost in India?
Most Indian deployments land between ₹1 lakh and ₹5 lakh a year, priced per user under the Veeam Universal License.* The exact number depends on mailbox count, whether OneDrive and Teams are included, and whether the backup copy sits in an immutable Mumbai repository. We size this on the free 30 minute call.
Is Veeam’s licensing changing again?
Veeam moved from perpetual per-socket licences to the subscription-based Veeam Universal License a few years ago, and list prices have risen since. We have seen renewal quotes jump without warning when a reseller does not flag the increase early. We flag it in writing before the renewal date, not after.
How fast can a mailbox actually be restored?
A single mailbox or a single file restores in minutes once the backup job has run, because Veeam indexes at the item level rather than the whole tenant. Restoring an entire multi-thousand-mailbox tenant after a major incident takes longer and depends on repository throughput, which is exactly what we size before go-live.
Are Veeam’s own backup servers a security risk?
Yes, and Veeam has had critical, actively exploited vulnerabilities in its Backup and Replication component, including a remote-code-execution flaw used by ransomware groups. Patch discipline on the backup server itself is not optional, and we include patch cadence in the support contract rather than leaving it to the customer’s IT calendar.
Do you sell only Veeam, or do you compare it honestly?
We resell Veeam, Commvault and several other backup platforms, so read this list knowing that. Sometimes the honest recommendation is Commvault or Cohesity instead, usually when an estate already standardised on one of them elsewhere. We have made that call before, and those clients are still clients.
Does a Veeam backup help with a cyber insurance claim?
Most Indian cyber insurance policies now ask for evidence of a tested, immutable backup separate from the production environment before they pay out on a ransomware claim. A Veeam repository with retention lock and a documented restore test is exactly the evidence an insurer’s assessor asks for. We include a one-page restore-test log with every deployment for this reason, not as an afterthought.
Ready for a written Veeam Backup for M365 quote?
Tell us your mailbox count and whether OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams need covering. A sized quote, licence tier and repository cost broken out separately, lands in 24 working hours.
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