Permissions

This table contains the list of operations that require specific user account permissions.

Operation	Required Roles and Permissions
Installing and updaing Veeam Plug-in	The account used for installing and updating Veeam Plug-in must have root privileges.
Performing backup and restore operations in Veeam Plug-in	The account used to start BRTools backup and restore operations must have permissions described in the Starting BRTools section in the SAP Database Guide: Oracle.
Connecting to Veeam Backup & Replication, managing backups	The account specified in the Veeam Plug-in configuration settings must be able to authenticate against the Veeam Backup & Replication server. For details, see Configuring Plug-in for SAP on Oracle. The account specified in the Veeam Plug-in configuration settings must be granted access rights on the Veeam backup repository where you want to store backups. To learn how to grant permissions on Veeam repositories, see Access and Encryption Settings on Repositories. You can work with backups created by Veeam Plug-in only with the account used for creating the backups. If you want to use another account, see required permissions in Configuring Plug-in for SAP on Oracle.

Operation

Required Roles and Permissions

Installing and updaing Veeam Plug-in

The account used for installing and updating Veeam Plug-in must have root privileges.

Performing backup and restore operations in Veeam Plug-in

The account used to start BR*Tools backup and restore operations must have permissions described in the Starting BR*Tools section in the SAP Database Guide: Oracle.

Connecting to Veeam Backup & Replication, managing backups

The account specified in the Veeam Plug-in configuration settings must be able to authenticate against the Veeam Backup & Replication server. For details, see Configuring Plug-in for SAP on Oracle.

The account specified in the Veeam Plug-in configuration settings must be granted access rights on the Veeam backup repository where you want to store backups.

To learn how to grant permissions on Veeam repositories, see Access and Encryption Settings on Repositories.

You can work with backups created by Veeam Plug-in only with the account used for creating the backups. If you want to use another account, see required permissions in Configuring Plug-in for SAP on Oracle.