The user needs the following rights to the drives being backed up:
Backup Files
Restore Files
Manage Auditing and Security Logs
Tony White wrote:
>
> OK, that's true that my users will never run the *admin* client. But this
> "Note" was stated in the manual for the *Windows backup-archive client*
> (Chapter 2), and does not refer specifically to the admin client -
> therefore implying that Administrator priv is required even to run the
> *backup-archive* client.
>
> Is anyone out there running Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and using the
> backup-archive GUI client while logged in as a user, without Administrator
> privs?
>
> Thanks -
>
> Tony
> -----------------------
> At 06:10 PM 2/26/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >Your users don't need to use the admin functions or interface to do
> >backups/archives. I'm not that
> >familiar with NT but I may need to login with the admin id.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Tony White [SMTP:tony.white AT GTRI.GATECH DOT EDU]
> >> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 1998 4:56 PM
> >> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >> Subject: New ADSM admin - Two questions
> >>
> <snip>
>
> >>
> >> [The ADSM Using the Microsoft Windows Backup-Archive Clients manual]
> >>
> >> But it did, alarmingly, state that the ADSM client on an NT
> >> client *must* be run by user Administrator or a user in the Administrators
> >> group. This would make ADSM unacceptable in our environment - we control
> >> our end-users tightly, and not one is allowed Administrator's privileges.
> >> Sure, the scheduler obviously should run as a service, installed by
> >> Administrator - but any user should be able to run the backup/archive
> >> client for restores....
> >>
> >> So, the second question: On a Windows NT 4.0 client, is it necessary to
> >> have Administrator privs to run the v3.1 client backup/archive program?
> >>
>
> ----------------------------------
> Tony White, Research Scientist II Tony.White AT gtri.gatech DOT edu
> GTRI Computer Coordinator (404) 894-8157 fax: 894-9337
> GT/GTRI/AIST, Atlanta, GA 30332-0816
>
> "A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once."
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