Network administrators assign individuals to be Data Owners when they create the following types of File Dynamics policies:
Security Notification policies
Security Lockdown policies
Security Fencing policies
Epoch Data Protection policies
Workload policies
In addition to direct assignments through these policies, members of the fdadmins group have permissions to perform the tasks that Data Owners can perform.
Data Owners are normally assigned based on a user’s association with a folder or share that an administrator classifies as an HVT. For example, if the Human Resources network share were to be classified as an HVT, and the administrator were to create an Epoch Data Protection policy to archive files on that share, it would make the most sense to make a member of the HR Department a Data Owner for the policy.
Making a user who is associated with an HVT the Data Owner, also makes sense because the user, based on his or her role, would be more familiar with the documents that need to be secured, recovered, or moved. Using the Human Resources network share again as an example, the Data Owner could view the contents of the Epochs and quickly determine which version of the file is the one to recover.