How to Restore Spanning Backup Files to Office 365?

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Written By Chirag Arora
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Published On August 27th, 2022
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Do you need to restore Spanning backup file to Office 365? or you have created a backup of other Google Services by using Spanning backup solution, but now you need to restore or import data from Spanning backup file to Office 365? – If the answer is Yes, then you are visited in the right place. Here we will guide you how can you restore Spanning backup files into Office 365.

We know Spanning backup provides cloud backup services for G-Suite, Office 365, Salesforce, etc. By using the Spanning backup facility you can easily protect or save data of Office 365, G-Suite into local machine. It also provides restore option in which you can restore your data, but what if you need to restore spanning backup file into Office 365 of G-Suite. There is no facility provided by Spanning to restore data into Office 365. Emails data are most important for user & organization, so here we provide the solution to restore Spanning mailbox (G-Suite) backup file to Office 365. There are many different scenarios where the user need to restore Spanning backup data into Office 365, we have collected some query –

Problem –
“Last few years, my company uses G-suite, but few month age, company unsubscribe G-Suite subscription. So, to make a backup of G-Suite data we had used Spanning Backup. Now, the company moved to Office 365. So we decided to import Spanning backup data into Office 365, but we face difficulties to perform this task. Suggest me a solution in which we can easily restore Spanning backup file into Office 365.”

In this above scenario, user has the backup of G-Suite emails which is made by Spanning, but he wants to import into Office 365. To access data into Office 365 he needs to export Spanning backup file into Office 365.

How to Restore Spanning Backup File to Office 365? – Know Steps

After making a backup of G-Suite data into the local machine, you get emails data into MBOX file format. Spanning backup used .mbox mailbox file to save emails into local machine. So, we will use this file to restore Spanning backup files to Office 365. To import this backup file into Office 365, you have to use MBOX to Office 365 migration tool. It will export entire data from Spanning backup file to Office 365.

Now, we are going to explain the working procedure of the tool to restore or import Spanning backup files into Office 365. Follow the steps:

Before proceeding to the next step, you have to download the software –

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    1. Start the software & select Spanning backup file which is saved as .mbox.

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    1. Then click on Next button.

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    1. Now, the export panel appears on your screen, Office 365 radio button selected, to maintain folder structure you have to check Maintain Folder Hierarchy. Click OK.

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    1. After that select With Impersonation option, and enter admin credential & click on Login.

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    1. Now, provides mailbox ID. It also provides Date Filter option, if you want to import selective data then apply the date filter.

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    1. Now software starts the migration process.

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    1. It will take few minutes to migrate data, After importing data you can access into Office 365.

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Conclusion

Spanning provides a backup solutions for Office 365, G-Suite, etc, but if you need to import or restore Spanning backup file into Office 365 or to perform cross migration then you have to use other solution. So, here we have explained how can you restore Spanning backup file of G-Suite emails into Office 365.

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By Chirag Arora

Having around 9+ years of experience in technical writing. Knows about the core technical areas. Also, provides easy and reliable solutions to resolve difficulties faced by users while working with different platforms.