Proxy User Account - Backup Operators or Domain Admins?

Backup operator privileges grant unrestricted access to file system objects - e.g. files and directories, but not to manipulating share attributes (e.g. ABE, Security Descriptors) which requires administrative access on the file server. Consequently, ARX features such as Subshares and ABE require administrative access. In addition, proxy user must be sufficiently privileged on the file server for snapshot operations. For basic tiering/migration, backup operator privileges should suffice.

 

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

- Nehru

You can also use different proxy-user accounts for different purposes, for example the snapshot operation can be conducted by a seperate proxy-user account if you wish to create a seperation of duties.