Administrator vs User account, new machine, and syncovery

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Contractor5Prepays9
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Administrator vs User account, new machine, and syncovery

Post by Contractor5Prepays9 »

am getting new machine, ultimately will have windows 11 pro.

i am working to set it up more securely than curent machine (i log in with administrator account)

if i set up new machine with administrator account, then set up a USER account for daily use, HOW does that affect syncovery, if i want to do ful backups of the computer, and not just files in the USER's subdirectories (some program file data, etc, for example). is there a way in the JOB section , if i run it from the USER account, to define the ADMINISTRATOR login, so it will allow copying of user-independent files?

or would i have to run it from administrator login?

thanks

tobias
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Re: Administrator vs User account, new machine, and syncovery

Post by tobias »

Hello,
the best solution is to install the scheduler as a service. Then scheduled jobs can have Administrator rights. If you want to start a job manually, there's a setting on the Program Settings dialog, tab sheet Misc, to run background jobs via the service too.

Only jobs running in the foregound (or background with preview) would be limited.

Please see
https://www.syncovery.com/documentation/faq/service/

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