Why root permissions for execution of a backup job?

steff123

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Hey, a scheduled backup job failed because the backup server wasn't up and I like execute the job manually in the pve web-ui. But I get the following error.
How can reexecute the job without login as root in the ui?

Some errors have been encountered:
node03: Parameter verification failed. (400)

prune-backups: Only root may set this option.
node01: Parameter verification failed. (400)

prune-backups: Only root may set this option.
 
Someone answered but deleted the reply. You can find the pveversion output below.
If it is necessary to be root@pam, is it possible to rerun a failed job from the command line with the parameters I can found in /etc/pve/jobs.cfg? Is there something like a command rerunjob backup-foobar where backup-foobar is the identifier in the jobs.cfg?

Code:
pveversion -v

proxmox-ve: 7.2-1 (running kernel: 5.15.39-4-pve)
pve-manager: 7.2-7 (running version: 7.2-7/d0dd0e85)
pve-kernel-5.15: 7.2-9
pve-kernel-helper: 7.2-9
pve-kernel-5.4: 6.4-15
pve-kernel-5.15.39-4-pve: 5.15.39-4
pve-kernel-5.15.39-2-pve: 5.15.39-2
pve-kernel-5.4.174-2-pve: 5.4.174-2
ceph-fuse: 14.2.21-1
corosync: 3.1.5-pve2
criu: 3.15-1+pve-1
glusterfs-client: 9.2-1
ifupdown: residual config
ifupdown2: 3.1.0-1+pmx3
libjs-extjs: 7.0.0-1
libknet1: 1.24-pve1
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.4.2
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.3.1-1
libpve-access-control: 7.2-4
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.2-1
libpve-common-perl: 7.2-2
libpve-guest-common-perl: 4.1-2
libpve-http-server-perl: 4.1-3
libpve-storage-perl: 7.2-8
libspice-server1: 0.14.3-2.1
lvm2: 2.03.11-2.1
lxc-pve: 5.0.0-3
lxcfs: 4.0.12-pve1
novnc-pve: 1.3.0-3
proxmox-backup-client: 2.2.5-1
proxmox-backup-file-restore: 2.2.5-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.3-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 3.5.1
pve-cluster: 7.2-2
pve-container: 4.2-2
pve-docs: 7.2-2
pve-edk2-firmware: 3.20220526-1
pve-firewall: 4.2-5
pve-firmware: 3.5-1
pve-ha-manager: 3.4.0
pve-i18n: 2.7-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 7.0.0-2
pve-xtermjs: 4.16.0-1
qemu-server: 7.2-4
smartmontools: 7.2-pve3
spiceterm: 3.2-2
swtpm: 0.7.1~bpo11+1
vncterm: 1.7-1
zfsutils-linux: 2.1.5-pve1