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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  3. Section II. Managing security
  4. Managing role-based access control
  5. Role permissions
  6. Protection plans
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

Protection plans

Permissions for protection plans allow a user to view and manage protection plans and to add assets to a protection plan.

Protecting assets

To view the storage that is associated with a protection plan, a user must also have View permission for the Storage. This permission is necessary to view the storage when you subscribe an asset to a plan. See Global > Storage.

To add assets to a protection plan or select Backup now for an immediate backup, the user needs to have permissions View and Subscribe on the protection plan. Additionally, the user needs permissions to View and Protect the assets. See Assets.

 

Table: Permissions for protection plans

Operation

Description

Additional required operations

View

View protection plans.

 

Create

Create protection plans.

View

For RHV and VMware:

NetBackup management > Access hosts > View

Update

Edit protection plans.

View

Delete

Delete protection plans.

View

Manage access

See Manage access.

View

Edit attributes

Edit the protection plan attributes. The attributes that are available to edit depend on the workload.

View

Subscribe

Edit full and incremental schedules

Allows users that subscribe assets to the plan to edit the backup start window for any full or any incremental schedules.

Note: You cannot edit any exclude dates from the web UI.

View

Subscribe

Edit transaction log schedules

Allows users that subscribe assets to the plan to edit certain settings for transaction log schedules. These settings can be edited: backup start window, the recurrence (frequency), and the retention.

Note: You cannot edit any exclude dates from the web UI.

View

Subscribe

Subscribe

Allow assets to be subscribed to the plan.

View

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