No, but a dedicated user is recommended and it should be set for no password expiration or if password expiration policies must be enforced, use the DS-Client’s Password Rotation feature. In a domain, or NDS environment, a user on each machine isn't necessary as one central user can be created with access to all the resources that require backing up.
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Do we need to create a user for Dakota Backup on all our servers?


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