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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide
  3. Protecting PaaS assets
  4. Protecting Azure Managed Instance databases
  5. Permissions required for protecting Azure Managed Instance databases
NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

Permissions required for protecting Azure Managed Instance databases

These permissions are required to protect Azure Managed Instance databases without creating a temporary database.

Note:

Managed Instances use Azure SAS tokens to securely put data in the form of .bak files in the Azure Blob.

  • Storage/storageAccounts/write

  • Storage/storageAccounts/delete

  • Storage/storageAccounts/listKeys/action

  • Storage/storageAccounts/regenerateKey/action

  • Storage/storageAccounts/read

  • Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices/containers/read

  • Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices/containers/write

  • Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices/containers/delete

  • Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices/containers/read

  • Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices/generateUserDelegationKey/action

  • Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices/containers/blobs/write

  • Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices/containers/blobs/delete

  • Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices/containers/blobs/read

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