Re: Backup to a network share

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Erland Sommarskog to Anton Shepelev:

> > What are some best (or least tolearable) practices
> > of backing up MSSQL to a network share on Windows?
>
> Run with a gMSA, I guess. That is, rather a machine-
> local MSA, an MSA that exists in the AD and therefore
> can be granted access to the network share.
>
> One more alternative to the list above is to grant
> access to the machine account, that is
> DOMAIN\MACHINE$, but that is less secure.

Thanks.  We have gone the latter route, as the middle
ground between ease and security.

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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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