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 his PC, so he can connect to the backup agent on t...
The server I am backing up has two drives, C: and E: (plus three folders on E: mapped as drives F:, H: and S:). Looking through the Job History, it is backing up:
\\server.domain.local\C: 3 hours
\\server.domain.local\ 3 hours
\\server....
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.
I had hoped we were all clear we were not talking about Backup Exec itself.
This is a remote console on another computer. Remote console is ryunning on Windows 7, which has a power users group. It is connecting to a server running Windows Server 201...
CraigV: ...standard user account with NO AD admin rights.
pkh: You cannot run backups with BE unless you are a domain admin
Great... Anyone else got an opinion?
But no one knows what authority exactly?
If the console remembered the credentials, that would be fine.
I am really the first user to come across this problem? Surely there must be other companies that have a guy responsible for backups who is not ...
