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vCLI Host Backups (minimum permissions)
I've been going onto each of my ESX hosts and creating a new account called "backup" that I then use in a --config file to backup that host using the vicfg-cfgbackup.pl script. Just to get it to work they way I created this users was to add him to both "root" and "localadmin" groups. Then I went to the permissions tab and added that user to the "Administrator" role. This is obviously an overkill in permissions. I was wondering if someone had experimented with the minimum permissions necessary to backup the config on an ESXi server.
-Gunnar
Gunnar Berger
http://www.gunnarberger.com
http://www.endusercomputing.com