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Backup to a network share

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Hello, all (however few that may be).

While setting up backup via maintenance plans,
we have found that we cannot specify a Windows network
directory as backup target, because the MSSQL
service runs as the standard local user MSSQL$<instance> ,
which (naturally) has no access to it.

Our administator suggests re-configuring it
to run as domain-level user
(with access to the requrired network share),
or even use a two-stage backup,
with a separate step of moving the backup files
from the local machine to the network.

The only other way we know to make that share
accessible to MSSQL is to give it permissions
for /everyone/, which we should rather avoid.

What are some best (or least tolearable) practices
of backing up MSSQL to a network share on Windows?

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Backup to a network share Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2026-01-22 17:21 +0300
  Re: Backup to a network share Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2026-01-22 23:06 +0100
    Re: Backup to a network share Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2026-01-23 18:55 +0300

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