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Example User Configurations
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Example User Configurations
This section gives some examples of typical user configurations.
Allowing Users to Restore Their Own Files
This restore policy allows all or just selected users to restore their own
data. It provides sufficient security and may relieve the backup operator
from doing a number of restore operations.
When to Use This
Policy
• When the users have sufficient knowledge to handle restores. You
need to provide some way of training the users on basic backup
concepts and restore operations.
• You use library backup devices with media of all most recent
backups. The Data Protector User group by default does not allow
users to handle mount requests for needed media. The users will still
need an intervention from the backup operator in case of a mount
request.
What Needs to Be
Done?
1. Add the users who will be allowed to restore their own data to the
Data Protector users user group. For additional security, you may
limit the access to Data Protector for these users to a specific system
only.
2. Install the Data Protector User Interface on the systems the users are
using. Data Protector automatically checks the user rights and allows
restore functionality only.
3. When you configure backup of the user systems, make backups
visible to the users by setting it to public.
Enabling Users to Back Up Their Systems
Data Protector differentiates between the user’s right to configure a
backup and the user’s right to run an already configured backup.
To create rights for a user to run their own backup, follow these steps:
1. Create a new user group or modify the existing group so that it has
the Start backup user right.