What is Backup Operators
Backup Operators
Backup Operators can override security restrictions for the sole purpose of backing up or restoring files. Backup Operators” group is an historical Windows built in group. Backup operator groups allows users to take the backup and restore files regardless whether they have access to the files or not.
by default none of users are members of backup operators group.Any accounts that are members of the Backup Operators group must be documented, including application accounts.
Review the Backup Operators group in Computer Management.
What privileges are provided to backup operators?
- Can recover and back up files.
- Can create a system backup.
- Able to recover system state. (Only Windows® XP and 2003). To restore system state on Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 2008, or 10, you must also be a member of the Administrators group.
- The TSM Scheduler service can be started
What are the limitations of backup operators?
- Unable to launch further services (TSM Client Acceptor, TSM Remote Client Agent, and TSM Journal Service)
- Not possible to install and set up client services
- Open file support cannot be used
- Not possible to backup and restore images
- Windows file sharing cannot be backed up or restored
How to add a user to the Backup Operators group
Open Computer Management
Choose Groups. In Computer Management > Local Users and Groups > Groups, you may locate it.
Double-click Backup Operators and then click on Add
To add a user to the backup operators group, click Add and provide the name.
Click on OK
Click on Apply and OK
Things to consider before using the Backup Operators group account
Things to consider before employing a backup Before using a Backup Operators group account to back up, archive, restore, or retrieve your data, there are a few things you should keep in mind.
Before using a Backup Operators group account to back up, archive, restore, or recover your data, take the following factors into mind:
You might be unable to run the backup-archive client if you have previously used it with an Administrators group account because you are unable to access the log files (for example dsmerror.log). Giving the Backup Operators group Read and Write access to the log files or the folders holding these log files would help to solve this issue.
If you try an incremental backup of an existing file space using a member of the Backup Operators group and you already have backups from a backup-archive client version 5.2 or earlier, all of the data will seem to have changed and will be transferred again to the IBM Spectrum ProtectTM Server.
The Windows encrypting file system may prevent members of the Backup Operators group from backing up or restoring data from files that have been encrypted by an Administrator account (EFS).
It is not within the scope of their power for members of the Backup Operators group to alter the last access time for files that have been encrypted using the Windows encrypting file system (EFS).
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