About the Exchange credentials in the client host properties
The Exchange credentials in the client host properties indicate the account that has necessary permissions to perform Exchange restores. The permissions that are required depend on the Exchange version that you have.
See the following topics:
See Creating a privileged NetBackup user account for EWS access.
See Creating a minimal NetBackup account for Exchange operations.
Note the following:
Credentials are stored in the Credential Management System (CMS).
Review any auto-discovered mappings that NetBackup creates.
To use GRT, configure the Exchange credentials on all granular clients.
Alternatively, you can configure the Exchange credentials only on the granular clients that perform restores. In this case, for the entire domain add "Exchange Servers" to the "View-Only Organization Management" role group. Perform this configuration in the Exchange Administration Center (EAC) or in Active Directory. See the following Microsoft article for more information:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj657492
See Configuring an Exchange backup that uses Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) (non-VMware backups).
See Configuring Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) with a VMware backup that protects Exchange.
The account that you configured for the must also have the right to "Replace a process level token."
For database restores from VMware backups, the Exchange credentials that you provide must have permissions to restore VM files.
If you want to restore from a VMware snapshot copy that was created with Replication Director, do the following:
Provide the Exchange credentials in the and fields.
Configure the NetBackup Client Service with an account that has access to the CIFS shares that are created on the NetApp disk array.
See Configuring NetBackup with access to the CIFS share on the NetApp disk array.
If you specify the minimal NetBackup account for the Exchange credentials in the client host properties, NetBackup can back up only active copies of the Exchange databases. If you select in the Exchange database backup source field when you create a policy, any backups fail. The failure occurs because the Microsoft Active Directory Service Interface does not provide a list of database copies for a minimal account.