Back up: which account do you use to backup Exchange mailboxes ?

From: Marlon Brown (marlon_brownj_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/08/04


Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 19:41:17 -0800

I have a domain admin account used to execute the backup agent for Exchange
2000 mailbox and db.

If possible I would like to downgrade the privilege of that 'exchange'
account and remove it from domain admin group. I understand that the
account would need rights to access all mailbox and Exchange db.

Which permission should I grant to such back account ? If no alternative is
available, I guess the alternative would be using my domain admin account to
execute the backup agent, what may be not be ideal I think.



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