Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 36)

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of user rights, membership in security groups, and the Full Control permissions on respective registry
keys in the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Acronis. There are no permissions
granted on other registry keys.
The following table lists the services of Acronis Backup components and the privileges for their
accounts.
Service name Purpose Account used
by the service
Privileges added to the account
User rights Group
membership
Permissions on registry
keys
Services for Acronis Backup agents
Acronis
Managed
Machine Service
(Main service)
Backing up and
recovering data
on the machine Acronis Agent
User (new
account) or
user-specified
account Log on as a
service
Adjust memory
quotas for a
process
Replace a
process level
token
Modify
firmware
environment
values
Backup
Operators
(for any account)
Administrators
(for new account
only)
BackupAndRecovery
Encryption
Global
MMS
Acronis VSS
Provider
(Auxiliary
service; created
only for Agent
for Windows in a
Windows Server
operating
system)
Using a Volume
Shadow Copy
(VSS) provider
(p. 128) that
comes with
Acronis Backup Local System
No additional privileges
Acronis
Removable
Storage
Management
Service
(Auxiliary
service)
Managing locally
attached tape
devices. Can be
also used by the
Storage Node
Service. Local System
No additional privileges
Services for Acronis Backup Management Server
Acronis
Management
Server Service
(Main service)
Centrally
managing
backup
operations on
multiple
machines AMS User
(new account)
or
user-specified
account Log on as a
service Acronis
Centralized
Admins AMS
BackupAndRecovery