Recommendations for OneDrive Backup Methods

So my company just switched over to Office365, and so far things are pretty good. I'm looking to utilize the OneDrive features as a replacement for our individual user drives, currently housed on our server. My issue is this:
1. Microsoft doesn't recommend using OneDrive as a backup method, therefore I will need to back these drives separately from OneDrive.
2. According to Microsoft's site, it's not supported or recommended to change the location of OneDrive, so it's forever on the local drive of the user's computer.
With these issues taken in to account. How am I supposed to backup OneDrive if every drive is on that individual user's computer? It's an administrative nightmare to manually point everything to a server location for easier backup access since users have
different schedules and some will shut their computers down at night (when a backup would take place) while others don't.
So, for anyone who has done this already, how do you manage the backups?
Thanks!

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Sorry to butt in, but I'm on the lookout for a solution to make a secondary, offsite back-up of my company's data. I was also looking at the usage of external hard disk for the purpose but am stumbling at a very basic question.
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I'm not entirely comfortable relying on Time Machine alone because I've encountered some problems in the past where my backups were lost.
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