sdube Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 Hi, Does anyone here have successfully installed/ran Retrospect backup with only the Backup Operator group on Windows machine? I would like to know if RB supports such a configuration or does it need absolutely full administrative rights to backup? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdube Posted October 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2003 So, no one uses a dedicated Backup Operator account for Retrospect? That's odd... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted October 31, 2003 Report Share Posted October 31, 2003 Hi Retrospect should have full administrative rights in order to function properly. Regular users can usually lauch immediate operations but some restores and backups will fail with insufficient permissions. To get around these problems Dantz recommends you use an account with Admin priveleges to run your backup. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinhenze Posted November 1, 2003 Report Share Posted November 1, 2003 Since the Backup Operator Group has full READ priveleges, Retro should back up OK as long as it only tries to write to folders/files that the logged in user already has full rights to. You'd have to logon with admin rights to do a restore outside the BOG member's area, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted November 4, 2003 Report Share Posted November 4, 2003 Hi The problem is that the user needs write access to the backup catalog file, operations log, the Retrospect preferences etc. That is where you are going to run into trouble. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdube Posted November 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2003 So, I guess I could add WRITE rights to the retrospect files for the BO and it would run fine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted November 5, 2003 Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 Hi You can give it a shot but my impression is that it is more complicated than that. Please post what you find as this is not really documented very well. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADDCommunication Posted November 5, 2003 Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 I'm having the same problem, I even added the privilege of r/w to the directory of retrospect... Mostly my problem for now is that Retrospect doesn't see my tape backup (LaCie AIT1 Firewire), but with admin rights it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADDCommunication Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 Nobody can help us to resolve that? I mean we can't be just the only one who wants to run retrospect with a dedicated account... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 Quote: ADDCommunication said: I'm having the same problem, I even added the privilege of r/w to the directory of retrospect... Mostly my problem for now is that Retrospect doesn't see my tape backup (LaCie AIT1 Firewire), but with admin rights it works When this occurs is Retrospect launching automatically or are you launching it manually? How are you logged in when launching Retrospect? Can NT Backup see the tape drive while logged in as a Backup Operator? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADDCommunication Posted February 4, 2004 Report Share Posted February 4, 2004 Actually, yes NT does see it, but Retrospect wont :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADDCommunication Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 Anyone has an answer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 Retrospect can't access your tape drive when logged in as a member of the Backup Operators group under Windows 2000. Windows 2000 has changed the permissions for the Backup Operator from those that we were using under NT. Users should always be logged in as Administrator to manually backup to CD-R/RW under Windows 2000. When using Windows 2000 you must be logged in as Administrator during manual executions of the backup. Under Windows NT, you may be logged in as Backup Operator or Administrator at the time of a manual execution of the backup. Automated backups do not have these restrictions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADDCommunication Posted April 8, 2004 Report Share Posted April 8, 2004 But for restoring things, or dearchiving things in the software, we absolutely need to be an Administrator? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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