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View and manage backup plans and tasks owned by any user on the machine.
Linux
When managing a machine running Linux, the user has or obtains the root privileges, and so can:
Back up and recover any data or the entire machine, having full control over all Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10 agent operations and log files on the machine.
Manage local backup plans and tasks owned by any user registered in the operating system.
To avoid routine logging on to the system as root, the root user can log on with the ordinary user
credentials and then switch user as required.
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Owners and credentials
This section explains the concept of owner and the meaning of a backup plan's (or task's) credentials.
Plan (task) owner
A local backup plan owner is the user who created or last modified the plan.
A centralized backup plan owner is the management server administrator who created or last
modified the centralized policy that spawned the plan.
Tasks, belonging to a backup plan, either local or centralized, are owned by the backup plan owner.
Tasks that do not belong to a backup plan, such as the recovery task, are owned by the user who has
created or last modified the task.
Managing a plan (task) owned by another user
Having Administrator privileges on the machine, a user can modify tasks and local backup plans
owned by any user registered in the operating system.
When a user opens a plan or task for editing, which is owned by another user, all passwords set in
the task are cleared. This prevents the "modify settings, leave passwords" trick. The program displays
a warning each time you are trying to edit a plan (task) last modified by another user. On seeing the
warning, you have two options:
Click
Cancel
and create your own plan or task. The original task will remain intact.
Continue editing. You will have to enter all credentials required for the plan or task execution.
Archive owner
An archive owner is the user who saved the archive to the destination. To be more precise, this is the
user whose account was specified when creating the backup plan in the
Where to back up
step. By
default, the plan's credentials are used.
Plan's credentials and task credentials
Any task running on a machine runs on behalf of a user. When creating a plan or a task, you have the
option to explicitly specify an account under which the plan or the task will run. Your choice depends
on whether the plan or task is intended for manual start or for executing on schedule.
Manual start
