Permissions

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

Note

If you plan to restore SAP HANA databases using Veeam Explorer for SAP HANA, consider the required permissions listed in the Permissions section of Veeam Explorers User Guide.

Operation	Required Roles and Permissions
Installing and updating Veeam Plug-in	The account used for installing and updating Veeam Plug-in must have root privileges.
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 Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA. For enhanced security, we recommend creating a separate standard user that will be solely dedicated to performing the backup and restore operations. 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 Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA.

Operation

Required Roles and Permissions

Installing and updating Veeam Plug-in

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

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 Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA. For enhanced security, we recommend creating a separate standard user that will be solely dedicated to performing the backup and restore operations.

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 Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA.