Required Roles and Permissions for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure

You want to create manual permissions for your Azure account (service account) for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure or for a repository account. The Azure or service account is responsible for:

• Synchronization of virtual machines and disks with the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure database.
• Synchronization of subscriptions and storage accounts.
• Accessing virtual machines and its disks as a source of backup.
• Creating and deleting snapshots of virtual disks during backup.

The repository account can be used to store data in a different Azure Active Directory.

Azure Service Account

Go to the Azure portal and add permissions to your Azure account. The account for the default subscription will need at least the following permissions: 

Contributor

For other subscriptions that are connected to your account, add the following permissions:

Snapshots  
Microsoft.Compute/snapshots/read  
Microsoft.Compute/snapshots/write  
Microsoft.Compute/snapshots/delete  
Virtual Machines  
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/write  
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/delete  
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/read  
Disks  
Microsoft.Compute/disks/read  
Microsoft.Compute/disks/write  
Microsoft.Compute/disks/delete  
Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/read  
Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/write  
Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/delete  
Storage accounts  
Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/read  
Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/write  
Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/delete

 

Repository Account 

Go to the Azure portal and add permissions to your storage account. You will need at least the following permissions: 

Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/*  
Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/read

For more information, see the Required Permissions section of the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure User Guide.