Backup Service Will Not Start Due To Group Policy
Challenge
<04> Error Unable to acquire privilege 'SeRestorePrivilege'.
Cause
These errors occur if you specify a local or domain administrator as the Veeam Backup Service account but set Group Policy such that the account does not have all of the default permissions of a local administrator.
Solution
SeRestorePrivilege is “Restore files and directories”
On a domain controller, use Group Policy Management to determine whether these policies have been defined for the OU containing the Veeam Backup server, then check containers with lower precedence (see Group Policy processing and precedence). Alternatively, you can use Group Policy Results or Resultant Set of Policy to identify the problematic GPO. The policy applied to the Veeam Backup server must either be Not Defined or include the user specified as the Veeam Backup Service account.
After changing policy, run gpupdate from a command line on the Veeam Backup server to refresh Group Policy settings, then start the service.
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