Permissions

The following table lists the required permissions for user accounts to restore PostgreSQL data.

Operation

Required Roles and Permissions

Veeam Explorer for PostgreSQL launch

The account used to run Veeam Explorer for PostgreSQL must be a member of the local Administrators or Users group.

Restore

The account used for PostgreSQL data recovery must be a Linux user with root privileges on the target machine. Root privileges are required to mount the backed-up file system to the target server and to communicate with PostgreSQL.