Feature Request: Restrict volume restore

[bkonicek]

I haven't gotten the beta yet but I didn't see any options for it in the webinar. Can there be a feature to disable volume restore from the taskbar icon for non-admin users so they cannot accidentally do this?

[Dima P.]

Hello,

Since it is an end user product there is no such feature now. Thank you for the feedback as it might be useful for some major deployments - we will look into this.

[Dima P.]

bkonicek,
I was forced by our dev team to post a small clarification

- to configure Endpoint Backup user needs admin permissions on local machine
- to run a backup admin permissions are not required
- to run a restore user again would need admin permissions on local machine

Frankly speaking admin can install and configure backup for a user, and then let user run Endpoint backup, when restore is required – admin login to the machine and perform this operation.
Of course that would not work this way if an end user got local admin privileges.

[Riyaz.Hussain]

wow..... That's a news. Pretty tough for business users then.........

[bkonicek]

Oooh...that's kind of disappointing. I was hoping to give this to remote users. Do they have to be an admin even for recovering a single file?

[patrickl78]

Hide App and tray icon from user so that only administrators see it to prevent users from configuring backup jobs or trying to restore data on their own.

[Vitaliy S.]

It seems like there are two different opinions on how it should look like...

[jonaz]

If this was fully integrated into Veeam B&R, this would be a non issue as you can choose different creds using credential manager.

[Gostev]

I think it would certainly make sense to allow own files restore, even if the user is not a local admin.

However, I know there is a technology limitation that requires (at least in B&R) that a user initiating FLR is a local admin (this has to deal with file system driver FLR uses). Dmitry, please investigate with the devs if this can instead be done by a service running as a LOCAL SYSTEM.