Dockit 365 Archiver

If you aim for high IT security and compliance for your system, a software utility such as Dockit 365 Archiver could prove a reliable companion to Office 365 and SharePoint.

Sporting a straightforward user interface that minimizes the effort you need to invest in carrying out each task, the program is capable of archiving SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business content repositories to either network or local drives.

It is worth pointing out that one of Dockit 365 Archiver’s highlights is the fact that it can handle large libraries containing documents and their corresponding metadata and schema. Storing and restoring the data you have archived should raise no difficulty whatsoever, with disaster recovery performance metrics being considerably improved as well.

It should also be mentioned that considerable focus is put on reducing the costs involved by SQL Server storage, which is once again proved by the fact that irrelevant sites can be easily deleted from SharePoint, which in turn enhances IT compliance.

As for the rules you could turn to when trying to move or offload content, you any use any of the following: inactivity, employee rules, number of document versions, staleness, and more.

In order to have a better overview of the tasks you have carried out, resorting to stats and logs should provide you with all the information you need on the archived content.