Gretchen,

  To allow a user to backup and recover files using ADSM without granting
them admin authority they must have the following user rights.
  Backup Files
  Restore Files
  Manage Auditing and Security Logs

I got this from one of the readme files with the current PTF.  I tried it
and it does work, however the non-admin ID I granted this authority was not
able to backup the registry still.  The reason for this at our installation
is that we use a NT policy that prevents any non-admins from editing the
registry.  You may or may not still have this problem.

There is a work around, if you really desire a backup of the registry.
Grant your users the above rights and add backupreg NO to the options file.
 When they run their backups they will NOT backup the current registry.  In
order to get a reasonably current copy of the registry you can do 1 of
several things.
1) Run a daily script using either the NT or ADSM scheduler that runs a
DSMC REGBACK ENTIRE -password=xxxx command.  This will backup the registry
despite the BACKUPREG NO options.
2) Run a daily script using the NT scheduler that runs the REGBACK utility
to backup the registry to a location on the hard drive.  When your users
run their backups you will get that registry backup.

Let us know what you think of these options.

Good Luck,
  Dan T.

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> From: Gretchen L. Thiele <GRETCHEN%PUCC.BITNET AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> From: Gretchen L. Thiele <GRETCHEN%PUCC.BITNET AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: ADSM errors on NT platforms
> Date: Wednesday, September 03, 1997 9:57 AM
>
> Using BACKUPREG NO in the options files allows the general (non-admin)
> user to initiate the backup, but each file is now a failure, resulting
> in an '(F) Access Denied' message in the backup window. Thanks for the
> suggestion, though.
>
> More on the problem - it is NOT an NTFS problem, since the user can copy
> files from other sources to the hard drive. The NTFS permissions are set
> so that there is global write authority.
>
> Gretchen L. Thiele
> Systems Programmer
> Princeton University CIT
> 87 Prospect Ave.
> Princeton, NJ 08544
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
>
> From: Peter Thomas@MANULIFE on 09/03/97 10:20 AM
> Wouldn;t the other option tehn be to have the options set so that the
suer
> didn;t do the backup regisrtry when they run ADSM?
>
> -    BACKUPREG NO in DSM.OPT
> or
> -    -BACKUPREG=NO on the command line