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

Good question. I believe it will depend on whether what you
move allows inheritance, or forms a new top-level inheritance
point (i.e. blocks inheritance)

Another good question is asking what if one is only moving a
structure that mostly inherits from a parent not included in
the move.

The safe thing to do would probably be to set the top of what
you are moving first, i.e. use "do not inherit" + copy. That
should not impact variations of permissions down within and
should move without the two issues above.

Roger

"Chris Coops" <chris.coops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorry suddenly realised, one other question...
What will happen to security on the restored files if they are restored
into a directory which is set to propagate security permissions to
child directories?

Thanks
Chris


Coops wrote:

Of course, should have thought of that!!

Thanks for the replies

Roger Abell [MVP] wrote:

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
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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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