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How Arcserve Backup Equivalence Works

The User Profile Manager lets you create equivalence to the caroot account for any Windows account. This functionality lets you allow users with Windows accounts log in to Arcserve Backup and access the Arcserve Backup managers and utilities. However, to allow users with Windows accounts to execute Arcserve Backup command line utilities (for example, ca_backup and ca_restore), you must create caroot equivalence for the Windows accounts using the ca_auth command line utility.

Note: Users who have been granted caroot equivalence using the ca_auth command line utility can run all the command line utilities but cannot log in to the Arcserve Backup Manager Console.

Creating equivalence has the following advantages: