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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Enterprise Vault™ Agent Administrator's Guide
  3. Enterprise Vault Agent support for Enterprise Vault
  4. About Enterprise Vault agent backups
  5. Privileges for Enterprise Vault backup
Veritas NetBackup™ for Enterprise Vault™ Agent Administrator's Guide

Privileges for Enterprise Vault backup

You require the following privileges to create Enterprise Vault agent backups:

  • SeBackupPrivilege

  • SeRestorePrivilege

  • SeSecurityPrivilege

  • SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege

  • SeDebugPrivilege

These privileges are required to create a backup. To assign these specific privileges to the Enterprise Vault administrator account, you need to add them to the following locations in the Local Security Policy. If Enterprise Vault is clustered, add these privileges on all nodes of the cluster.

  • Backup files and directories = SeBackupPrivilege.

  • Restore files and directories = SeRestorePrivilege.

  • Manage auditing and security log = SeSecurityPrivilege

  • Take ownership of files or other objects = SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege.

  • Debug programs = SeDebugPrivilege.

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