# User Permissions for Proxmox VE Backup and Restore Operations

Commvault software uses Proxmox VE permissions for protection operations in your Proxmox cluster. The software uses these permissions only to access storage, and VM configuration information that is required to back up and recover VMs, and to clean up intermediate entities that are created by Commvault during those operations.

Note

If a user is a PAM user, then you must manually add the user to each node in the Proxmox cluster. For example, if you create `testuser1@pam` in the GUI, then you need to add `testuser1` to each node and ensure that the password is the same across all nodes.

For more information on user permissions, see Proxmox Documentation.

The following sections list the permissions required for users to perform Proxmox VE backup and restore operations.

## Permissions for Backups

- Datastore.Audit

- Pool.Audit (content browse and filtering)

- Sys.Audit

- VM.Audit

- VM.Snapshot

- VM.Monitor

  Note

  This permission is required only for Proxmox 8.x environments.

## Permissions for Restores

- Datastore.Audit

- Datastore.Allocate

- Datastore.AllocateSpace

- SDN.Use

- Sys.Audit

- VM.Allocate

- VM.Audit

- VM.Config.CDROM

- VM.Config.Cloudinit

- VM.Config.CPU

- VM.Config.Disk

- VM.Config.HWType

- VM.Config.Memory

- VM.Config.Network

- VM.Config.Options

- VM.PowerMgmt

- VM.Monitor

  Note

  This permission is required only for Proxmox 8.x environments.

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