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mjplakus
Level 2
13 years ago

NetBackup Enterprise Minimum Permissions/Best Practices

I am about to setup a new NetBackup Enterprise environment.  I am trying to establish the minimum rights needed for both Windows and Linux/Unix clients plus any other best practices for installation....
7.1.x and Earlier
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    13 years ago

    You need a user account that has read access to ALL files and folders in order to backup. Write access is required for restore permissions.

    The above is a basic Unix requirement.

    To my knowledge 'root' is the only account with all required access levels.

    NBU daemons are run as root user by default.

Mark_Solutions's avatar
Mark_Solutions
Level 6
13 years ago

This is a very broad question as there are a lot of variables involved here.

All documentation can be obtained here:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&key=15143&channel=DOCUMENTATION&sort=recent

Local system is fine for most things

Admin Consoles on Windows need you to be logged in with Local Admin rights

Exchange / Active Directory etc. would need the NetBackup Service account setting to a suitable one.

It all depends on the NetBackup Versions / O/S versions and what you will be backing up.

The SORT link at the top of the forum is also very useful as you can put in what you have and what you want to do and it will guide you to the information and pre-requisites needed

#Edit#

SORT link:

https://sort.symantec.com/home

Hope this helps