Backup for SharePoint 6.12 - User Guide

Management Service Requirements

The Management Service is automatically installed when you install the other components. The computer that hosts the Management Service always hosts the Management Console.

Hardware and software requirements for the Management Service

The computer where you install the Management Service must meet the following minimum requirements:

·2.0 GHz or faster CPU.

·2 GB or more memory. The required memory size varies, depending on the size of the SharePoint objects you back up.

·50 MB free hard disk space.

·Microsoft .NET framework 4.0.

·Monitor capable of displaying 16-bit or more colors at a resolution of 1024 X 768 or higher.

·One of the following Windows versions:

§Windows Server 2012

§Windows Server 2012 R2

§Windows Server 2016

§Windows Server 2019

§Windows Server 2022

Permission requirements for the Backup Service user account

The user account that you specify for the Management Service must have the following permissions:  

·Must be a local Administrators on the computer that hosts the Management Service.

·Must be a member of the db_owner role for the repository database.

·To perform farm backups of SharePoint 2013, or 2016 farms, the account must be a member of the SharePoint farm administrators group.

You specify the database to use as the repository database when you install the Management Services.

In addition, when you install Metalogix Backup for SharePoint, the installer also assigns the permissions required to access the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to the farm account and to the account that you specify for the Backup Service.

For more information about the VSS permissions, see the Microsoft article Security Considerations for Requesters at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384604(VS.85).aspx.