Solstice Backup 5.1 Administration Guide

Permissions for Archive and Retrieve

After you enter the archive enabler code for the Backup server, all clients of that server are enabled for Backup Archive by default. In the Clients resource, you can disable or enable archiving for individual clients in the Archive Services attribute. To archive data that resides on the Backup server, make sure that the Archive Services attribute is enabled in the Clients resource for the server.


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When you enable the Archive Services attribute for a client resource, you also enable the Archive Services attribute for all other clients of the same name on that server. For example, if you have a Backup BusinesSuite module and the Backup client installed on the same machine that backs up to the same Backup server, both client resources have the same name. Archive Services is either enabled for both or disabled for both.


You can restrict access to Backup Archive on each client by granting permission to specific users in the Archive Users attribute of the Clients resource. Users listed in the Archive Users attribute can archive any file for which they have read permission, and they can browse the archive save sets (view the annotation information in the media database).

By default, only the owner of an archived save set or the Backup administrator can retrieve that save set. To allow all enabled archive users to retrieve any archived file, enable the Public Archives attribute in the Server resource. Whether you enable or disable the Public Archives attribute, retrieved files retain their original file ownership and access permissions.

You cannot omit specific clients from the retrieval permissions when you enable the Public Archives attribute.