Does the commvault backup account need to be a domain administrator or a local administrator? or can we give a different lower permissions
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Commvault User Permissions
+3Best answer by PedroRocha
Burak, it depends on which application this user will perform backup operations. For example: if you're going to use this user to connect to VMware vCenter to backup VMs, that user needs specific permissions on the VMware environment.
- Vaulter
Good morning. Can you please be more specific? Are you referring to the Commvault Admin account or are you referring to a Service Account for a specific agent being used to protect an application or file system?
+3We have a "backupuser" user in Windows AD for backups .
So this is a service account
I want to learn about what permisson should we give to this “bakcupuser” account on the server
+11Burak, it depends on which application this user will perform backup operations. For example: if you're going to use this user to connect to VMware vCenter to backup VMs, that user needs specific permissions on the VMware environment.
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