Re: Moving files and security permissions, when you don't have permission



User your backup capabilities, or NTbackup to backup to file
and then restore with permissions to the new location.
You will not be able to do this with xcopy as you do not have
the needed permissions and xcopy does not make use of the
backup/restore apis

"Coops" <chris.coops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1169474449.971800.200270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi all,
I have a shared folder with about 30GB of data which I need to move to
another disk in the same server.

Most of the files/folders I don't have permissions for, i.e. Domain
admins isn't in the list when viewing the security tab, and is most
definitely not the owner on most files.

I know I can use Xcopy to move files and for them to keep their
security, but without permissions for even the domain admin to access
the file can I still use it?

How can I move the files/folders as domain admin and still retain the
file permissions. The only way I can see so far is to reset the owner
and all permissions and then copy, but this means all the previous
permissions are lost.

Any suggestions please???



.



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