Backup Share Access

Portworx Backup supports three types of access for sharing your backups as outlined in the following list:

• View-only access: permits the user or group to only view the shared backup(s). The user can neither use those backups, nor restore them. View only access secures critical backups from unauthorized restore and deletion.

• Restore-only access: allows the user or group to view and also restore the shared backups on their cluster. Restore access safeguards critical backups from deletion.

• Full access: provides complete access to backups and enables a user or group to view, restore, update the backup details and also delete the shared backups.

When you share a backup with the users or groups by granting full access or restore access, and if you are the owner of backup location and Cloud credentials associated to the backup, Portworx Backup also shares backup locations and cloud accounts associated with that backup

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A backup owner can share their backup with restore and full access permissions with users who already have access to the backup location and cloud credentials. The backup owner is not required to be the owner of the Backup Location or Cloud Credentials to share with restore or full access.

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If a shared user with full access deletes shared backup(s), then those backup(s) get deleted for the backup owner, shared user(s) and group(s).