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What are the minimun rights a user account needs to be able to call dbbackup.exe with this user?

Background is: can we have a user which can't read any data in the database but is still able to do a backup?

asked 26 Jan '21, 05:37

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FWIW Foxhound uses a mixture of old-school and politically-correct privileges to set up three end-user administration user ids ( they should all be upgraded but something more interesting always gets in the way :)

GRANT CONNECT TO STOPPER IDENTIFIED BY "SQL";  -- no other permissions, only used to connect via dbstop.exe

GRANT CONNECT TO BACKER IDENTIFIED BY "SQL";
GRANT BACKUP TO BACKER;
GRANT MANAGE ANY DBSPACE TO BACKER;  -- to allow dbbackup -x delete and restart transaction log

GRANT CONNECT TO VALIDATOR IDENTIFIED BY "SQL";
GRANT VALIDATE TO VALIDATOR;
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answered 26 Jan '21, 07:20

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converted 26 Jan '21, 07:24

The passwords seem rather old-school, as well, rather than following the "politally-correct" v17 minimum length:)

(27 Jan '21, 03:06) Volker Barth
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You're right, that's just inviting a dbvalid vector DOS attack! :)

(27 Jan '21, 07:37) Breck Carter

With v16 and above, there's a separate BACKUP DATABASE system privilege, so assigning the privilege should do, methinks, such as

GRANT BACKUP DATABASE TO ABackupOperator;
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answered 26 Jan '21, 05:54

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edited 27 Jan '21, 04:13

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