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How much does proper Microsoft 365 backup actually cost in Canada?

For a 50-user business:
Roughly $2,400–$4,800 CAD per year, fully implemented.

What that investment typically includes:

✔️ Daily incremental backup of Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams
✔️ 7-year retention aligned with CRA record expectations
✔️ Point-in-time recovery to a specific date and time
✔️ Granular restore for individual emails, files, folders, or conversations
✔️ Immutable backup storage that ransomware can’t encrypt or delete
✔️ Faster recovery during employee departures, accidental deletion, or cyber incidents

Now compare that to the cost of one bad incident:

❌ $50K–$250K for a OneDrive ransomware event
❌ $90K+ responding to a CRA audit without proper retention
❌ $180K+ in lost project records after an employee departure
❌ Downtime, legal exposure, reputation damage, and operational disruption

This is where many Canadian SMBs misunderstand Microsoft 365.

Microsoft provides platform availability.
That does NOT mean full business-grade backup, long-term retention, or guaranteed recovery.

And when files disappear, retention expires, or ransomware spreads through synced folders, businesses discover the difference very quickly.

One of the most overlooked realities in IT today:
Backup is not expensive.
Recovering without it is.

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