You see the saving before anything moves.
ArchiveBridge is deliberately boring where it matters: read-only first, verify before delete, a link left behind for every file, and an audit trail for all of it. Here’s the whole journey.
Scan — free, read-only
Sign up and send your Global Admin one consent link. They approve a read-only app on Microsoft's own screen — nothing is installed in your tenant. Minutes later you have the number: how many gigabytes of aged files you're paying premium SharePoint rates to keep, and what moving them would save. Close the browser if you like; we email you when it's done.
Decide what counts as old
You set the policy: files untouched for six months (the scan's default), two years, or whatever fits. Add a size floor so tiny files stay put, limit it to certain file types, or certain sites. Anything under a Purview retention label or legal hold is excluded automatically — every run, on the record.
Copy, hash, verify — then move
Every file is copied to object storage, re-hashed there with SHA-256, and compared byte-for-byte with the source. Only on an exact match does the original leave SharePoint — replaced by a small link file that opens in a browser and says exactly where the file went and how to get it back. One mismatch halts the job with the original untouched.
Or just back up — touch nothing
Not ready to archive? Backup mode protects a verified copy of everything — version history included — and leaves SharePoint exactly as it is. Deleted-file detection catches things users remove directly. Most customers run both: back up everything now, archive the old stuff as it ages out.
Restore in one click, free, forever
Any file, any version, back to its original location — the link file is cleaned up automatically. Files someone deleted straight from SharePoint restore the same way. There's no egress fee and no per-restore charge, so recovery is never a budget conversation.
Then it just runs
Set a schedule and ArchiveBridge re-scans on cadence — daily to monthly. You get an email if a run fails and a weekly digest of what's protected. Optional immutable backups lock stored copies against change or deletion — by anyone, including us — for the window you choose.
Watch the scan happen.
Sixty seconds, start to finish: the three-field signup, the read-only consent your Global Admin approves, the results with your reclaimable number — and the one-click business-case PDF you can hand to your CEO or finance team.
Recorded against a demonstration tenant — all names and figures are fictional.
The short answers.
What do my users see?
The same folders, in the same place. A backed-up file doesn't change at all; an archived file is replaced by a small link — its name with .html added — that explains where it went and restores in one click. Nobody needs training, a plugin, or a new place to look.
What does the admin consent actually grant?
The free scan uses a read-only app with two permissions — Sites.Read.All and Organization.Read.All (the latter reads your licensed seat count to size your storage allowance; no files, no user data) — it can look, not touch. Archiving requires a second, separate consent with write access (Sites.ReadWrite.All), made deliberately later, when you've seen the numbers and chosen to proceed. Both apps are visible in your Entra admin centre and revocable at any time.
Where does the data go?
Your choice: storage we provision (Sydney region by default, any Wasabi region worldwide on request — object-lock capable for immutable backups), or any S3-compatible bucket you already run, anywhere. Either way it's encrypted in transit and verified on arrival.
How long does setup take?
The scan takes minutes. A full setup — consent, storage, policy, first backup running — is comfortably inside an afternoon, most of which is waiting for the first run to chew through your data.
Does it cover OneDrive and Teams too?
Today: SharePoint Online, which is where most tenants' cold-file weight sits (Teams channel files live in SharePoint sites, so much of Teams is covered by extension). OneDrive and remaining Teams surfaces are on the roadmap — if they matter to your numbers, tell us and we'll show you where they sit on it.
What does it cost?
Per terabyte under management, metered daily — you pay only for the days data is actually protected. No per-seat licences, no egress, free restores. See pricing for the numbers.
Weighing the field? Read our honest comparison of SharePoint archiving solutions — M365 Archive, ShareArchiver, Squirrel, ShArc, AvePoint Opus and where each one fits.
The scan is the proof.
Read-only, minutes to run, and you keep the report either way.