Credentials for AD Surebackup Job

[kag293]

Hi there, we have been using Veeam for a while now and we are just now starting to get Surebackup set up to verify our backups. I just have a quick questions regarding our Domain Controllers that I haven't been able to find a clear answer on. I have the lab set up and I created an Application group for the DCs. 1 is set as authoritative and the other non authoritative. My question is regarding the credentials in the application group for each VM. The DCs are being backed up with AAP with a domain admin account, should the domain admin account be used in the Surebackup Application group, or would this be the DSRM password? Am I overthinking things? Also, if I link a backup job this this application group and that job also contains the DCs that are in the application group, do I need to manually exlude them from the Surebackup job or will Veeam recognize that they are already running?

[PetrM]

Hi Kevin,

I think the domain admin account should work fine. Nope, you don't need to exclude VMs manually if you link a job.

Thanks!