Permissions

Setup Account

The account used to install Veeam Backup & Replication and Nutanix AHV Plug-in must have the Local Administrator permissions on the backup server.

Veeam Backup & Replication User Account

The account used to run Veeam Backup & Replication services must be a LocalSystem account or must have the Local Administrator permissions on the backup server.

Microsoft SQL Server

To back up Microsoft SQL Server data, the user whose account you plan to use must be:

• Local Administrator on the target VM.
• System administrator (has the Sysadmin role) on the target Microsoft SQL Server.

If you need to provide minimal permissions, the account must be assigned the following roles and permissions:

• SQL Server instance-level role: public and dbcreator.
• Database-level roles and roles for the model system database: db_backupoperator, db_denydatareader, public;
  for the master system database — db_backupoperator, db_datareader, public;
  for the msdb system database — db_backupoperator, db_datareader, public, db_datawriter.
• Securables: view any definition, view server state, connect SQL.

If the account does not have enough rights, Veeam Backup & Replication tries to truncate logs using the local SYSTEM account for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. For other Microsoft SQL Server versions, Veeam Backup & Replication uses NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account.

Microsoft Active Directory

To back up Microsoft Active Directory data, the account must be a member of the built-in Administrators group.

Microsoft Exchange

To back up Microsoft Exchange data, the account must have the local Administrator permissions on the machine where Microsoft Exchange is installed.

Oracle

The account specified at the Guest Processing step must be configured in the following way:

• For a Windows-based VM, the account must be a member of both the Local Administrator group and the ORA_DBA group (if OS authentication is used). In addition, if ASM is used, then such an account must be a member of the ORA_ASMADMIN group (for Oracle 12 and higher).
• For a Linux-based VM, the account must be a Linux user elevated to root. The account must have the home directory created.

To back up Oracle databases, you can specify the following options at the Oracle tab:

• Oracle account with SYSDBA privileges.

You can use, for example, the SYS Oracle account or any other Oracle account that has been granted SYSDBA privileges.

• Account specified for guest processing. That is, the Use guest credentials option selected.

In this case, the account that was specified at the Guest Processing step must be a member of the ORA_DBA group for a Windows-based VM and OSASM, OSDBA and OINSTALL groups for a Linux-based VM.

To perform guest processing for Oracle databases on Linux servers, make sure that the /tmp directory is mounted with the exec option. Otherwise, you will get an error with the permission denial.

Microsoft SharePoint

To back up Microsoft SharePoint server, the account must have the Farm Administrator role.

To back up Microsoft SQL databases of the Microsoft SharePoint Server, the account must have the same privileges as that of Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server.

PostgreSQL

The account specified at the Guest Processing step must be a Linux user elevated to root. The account must have the home directory created.

To back up PostgreSQL instances, the account must have the superuser privileges for the PostgreSQL instance. For more information, see PostgreSQL documentation.