#Export SharePoint Online Data

With AvePoint Cloud Backup, you can export the backup data for SharePoint Online lists, libraries, folders, documents, and items. Complete the steps below to export SharePoint Online backup data:

1. Navigate to the Restore > AvePoint Cloud Backup page, and then click the SharePoint Online tile.

2. Select the items that you want to export. You can choose one of the following methods to find the data to export.

   • Search mode – Define a SharePoint Online site collection as the search scope and then use the properties to search for the items within the scope. Note that this method does not support searching and restoring the list items.

     Refer to the steps below:

     1. In the URL field, enter the keywords in the URL or site title to search and select a SharePoint Online site collection. The default search condition is to search the backup data of that site collection within the last backup cycle. In the drop-down list, different types of sites can be distinguished by specific icons.

     2. In the Backup time range field, the time range of the last backup cycle is displayed by default. Click the Calendar button to customize the backup time range. The start date must be earlier than the end date. You can click Reset if you want to reset the settings. Click OK to save your customization.

     3. Select List/Library, Folder, or Document from the Level list for the items you want to search. Note that Site collection, Site, and App are not supported for data export. If you want to search for all lists or libraries, folders, or documents in the selected site collection, you can leave the search conditions empty. To search for specific lists/libraries or folders, enter the title or name or the keywords for search; to search for specific documents, you can configure the following search conditions: Document name, Created date, Created by, Modified by, or Document size.

     4. Click Search to search the items according to the conditions you configured. The search conditions and the search results are displayed. The results include all backup items which meet the search conditions in SharePoint Online sites, Project Online sites, Viva Engage sites, Group sites and Teams sites. The search results table will display a maximum of 2000 items. You can edit the search conditions and click Search to adjust the search results.

     5. Find and select the item you want to export from the search results. In the drop-down list under the Recovery Point column, select a backup job that backed up this item at the status that you want to export.

   • Calendar mode – Find a backup job that backed up the items at the time of the status you want to export, and then search and select the items from the backup job data.

     1. In the calendar, all SharePoint Online backup jobs are displayed. You can select whether to display the finished with an exception or failed jobs in the calendar by selecting the Include jobs with only partial backup data option. Note that the data of these jobs may be incomplete. Hover over a backup job to show the backup job details.

     2. Select a backup job. All backup data of SharePoint Online, up to a maximum of 2000 items, is displayed in the table. You can select the Show data from this backup only option (historical data in this scope from previous backups not included) to only show the data backed up in the selected backup job.

     3. You can enter keywords to search the items, or you can click the backup data to browse the items you want to export.

3. After you have selected the items, you want to export, click the Export button above the table to export all selected items.