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Appendix A: SQL Backup Pro Installation and Configuration
• Network protocol: Select the SQL Server communication protocol to use
with this server.
• Network packet size: Change the default packet size for SQL Server
communications in SQL Backup GUI.
• Connection time-out: Change the length of time that the GUI will
attempt communication with the server before failing.
• Execution time-out: Change the length of time that SQL Backup will
wait for a command to start before stopping it.
Accept all the defaults for the Options page, and go ahead and click Connect. Once the
GUI connects to the server, you will need to fill out two more pages of information about
the service that is being installed. On the first page, select the account under which the
SQL Backup service will run; it will need to be one that has the proper permissions to
perform SQL Server backups, and execute the extended stored procedures that it will
install in the master database, and it will need to have the sysadmin server role, for the
GUI interface use.
You can use a built-in system account or a service account from an Active Directory
pool of users (recommended, for management across a domain). For this example, use
the Local System account. Remember, too, that in SQL Server 2008 and later, the
BUILTIN\Administrators group is no longer, by default, a sysadmin on the server, so
you will need to add whichever account you are using to the SQL Server to make sure you
have the correct permissions set up.
Figure A-5 shows an example of the security setup for a typical domain account for the
SQL Backup service on a SQL Server.
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