Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
- API permissions
- Administrator portal (Web UI)
- Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Copilot (AI chatbot)
- Manage users and roles
- What is a connector?
- What is a connector?
- Supported SaaS workloads and backup capabilities
- Workflow to protect data using Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
- Know your subscription details
- About transient errors
- Overview of adding connectors
- Configure General settings
- Configure Capture scope
- Configure User filter
- Configure Group filter
- Configure Folder filter
- Configure credentials
- Configure Custom backup policy and guidelines
- Configure Delete policy for SharePoint Online and guidelines
- Configure Stubbing policy
- Guidelines to configure Stubbing policy for SharePoint Online
- Schedule a backup
- Configure email addresses to get notifications
- Review configuration and edit/save/initiate backup
- Connectors page
- Connector status
- Edit connector configuration
- Delete connectors
- Pre-requisites to setup protection for M365
- Protect Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo tenant
- Protect Exchange Online data
- Protect SharePoint sites and data
- Backup and restore support for SharePoint Online
- Supported and unsupported SharePoint Settings and Types for backup and restore
- Supported Sites and List templates for backup and restore
- Supported SharePoint permission objects for backup and restore
- Setting up SharePoint Online protection with Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
- Configure additional backup options for SharePoint/Teams site/ OneDrive connectors
- End-user SharePoint data access in Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection
- Run the Delete and Stubbing policies to the SharePoint Online environment
- Backup limitations for SharePoint Online
- Protect Teams sites
- Protect OneDrive data
- Protect Teams chats
- Protect GoogleDrive data
- Protect Gmail data
- Protect Audit logs
- Protect Salesforce data and metada
- Protect Entra ID objects
- Protect Box data
- Protect Slack data
- Protect Email/Message data
- Configure Retention policies
- Perform backups
- View and share backed-up data
- Analytics
- About analytics
- Analytics page and refresh behavior
- Aggregation buckets
- Gain insights into storage utilization
- Gain insights into storage utilization for Entra ID and Salesforce connectors
- Gain insights into blocked activities, most active users, and more
- Gain insights into data volume (size and item count) on legal hold
- Gain insights into data volume (size and item count) saved in different Enhanced cases
- Gain insights into data volume (size and count) under different policies
- Gain insights into data volume (size and item count) under different Tags
- Gain insights into data volume (size and item count) under different Tags behaviors
- Gain insights into storage savings after deduplication and compression
- Gain insights into data ingestion trends
- Perform restores using Administration portal
- About restore
- Prerequisites for restore
- Restore Exchange Online mailboxes
- Restore SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams Sites and data
- Restore Teams chat messages and Teams channel conversations
- Restore O365 audit logs
- Restore Box data
- Restore Google Drive data
- Restore Gmail data
- About Salesforce Data, Metadata, and CRM Content restore and Sandbox seeding
- Guidelines for Schema changes in Salesforce organization to prevent restore failures
- Restore Standard and Custom objects (Structured data restore)
- Custom Object restore - post processing steps
- Restore specific Records (Structured data) using Query filters
- Restore Salesforce CRM Content (Unstructured data restore)
- Restore Salesforce files/documents in Public/Shared libraries (Unstructured data restore)
- Limitations of Salesforce Data restore
- Salesforce Objects not supported for restore
- Key considerations for Salesforce Metadata restore
- Restore Salesforce Metadata
- Limitations of Salesforce Metadata backup and restore
- About Entra ID (Azure AD) objects and records restore
- Restore Slack data
- Restore data to File server
- Set default restore point
- Configure Restore all, Restore all versions, Point-in-time, and Specific range restore options
- Configure email addresses for notifications
- Downloading an item
- Restore dashboard
- Install services and utilities
- About services and utilities
- Pre-requisites to download and install services and utilities
- Downloading services and utilities
- Where to install the services and utilities
- Installing or upgrading services and utilities
- Configuring service accounts for services and utilities
- About the Apps Consent Grant Utility
- Discovery
- Configure Tagging polices
- Configure Tiering policy
- Auditing
- Manage Stors (Storages)
About analytics
The Analytics feature in Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection provides visibility into the size and item count of backed-up data. Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection enables you to view this information at each stage of the data lifecycle - from ingestion to optimization - helping you understand how data evolves through processing.
It is the size and item count reported by the source workload (for example, Exchange, SharePoint, and so on).
Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection adds additional metadata and also modifies the data format when storing the backed-up data to its Stors as follows:
Workload
Format changes
Exchange Online
Converts emails to MIME format.
MIME formatting may increase size by ~30% for emails with attachments due to Base64 encoding.
For mostly text emails, the size may decrease, but no email content is lost.
Reports are based on the MIME-calculated size.
SharePoint Online
Generates an additional blob per item version to store metadata.
Blob size: 1 - 4 KiB per item version.
List items (for example, Employee Onboarding, Surveys) show only list item size as reported by SharePoint.
The size on > includes list + .
Teams chat
Includes additional metadata for teams, channels, and chats in the Analytics size report.
It is the optimized size and item count after deduplication and compression are applied to the stored data to minimize storage usage.
- On the home page, click Backup.
- Click Connectors.
- Click within the row of the required connector.
- Click Tasks.
- The Task details page is opened. The size is displayed under the Total uploaded field.
These details are displayed on the page as well as on the page.
>> For Analytics page:
- Open a web browser and access the Administration portal URL.
The home page of the Administration portal is displayed.
- On the home page, click Analytics.
- On the left, click Storage.
The size is displayed on the Total size section.
OR
- On the home page, click Administration.
- On the left, click Storage.
- On the General tab, click the Stor for which you want to view the details.
- Click the Analytics tab.
>> For System page:
- On the home page, click System.
- On the left, click Storage.
- The size is displayed in the Original size section.
- On the home page, click System.
- On the left, click Storage.
The compressed size and storage savings are displayed in the Storage savings section.