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F2Andy
Level 3
10 years ago

User permissions for remote console

We have Backup Exec running on a Windows 2011 SBS server. Another employee usually swaps the drives, and I want him to be able to do limited trouble-shooting. To that end I have set up the console on...
2014
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Best Practice
Windows Server (2003-2008)
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    F2Andy
    10 years ago

    I eventually found this out.

    The user needs to be a member of the Backup Operators group, which has to be done through Active Directory, not the SBS console.

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F2Andy
Level 3
10 years ago

As far as I can see that is about the permissions the backup agent itself needs to do backups. I am talking about something different - connecting to the agent from a remote console.