Grant permissions to user for backup/restore

  • Hello,

    Can anyonea tell me what permissions must i giv to a user inside SQL Server 2005 so that this user can backup and restore a database without given him sysadmin server role

    Thanks and regards,

    JMSM 😉

  • Hi,

    Backups:

    In order to take backup user must be sysadmin or db_owner or db_backupoperator. I prefer giving db_backupoperator permissions.

    Restoration:

    If the database being restored does not exist then user must have create database permissions. If the database being restored already exists user must be member of sysadmin or dbcreator roles.

    [font="Verdana"]Thanks
    Chandra Mohan[/font]

  • I know this is an old post but I'm searching for clarification of this. I'm configuring access for a vendor to maintain their own DB. This is in a new SQL instance. They need to do backups / restores occassionally. Can I assign the needed permissions to ONLY their database (which will already be in place) so they can't do anything on anything else? Thanks

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