copying on ntfs

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Posted 06 November 2002 - 07:09 PM

hi,
is it possible to backup folders on ntfs partitions with their ntfs and sharing permission settings?

#2 Richard.Whitson

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Posted 06 November 2002 - 09:21 PM

What product were you planning on using.

I know that all the Veritas products do that exact thing.

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Posted 07 November 2002 - 03:40 PM

i am not sure which product can do it,
but my requirement is to copy files from 1 ntfs partition to another without losing all its ntfs permissions and sharing permissions.

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Posted 07 November 2002 - 05:44 PM

OK, really vague reference to memory here, but I thought "robocopy" from the NT resource kit would do that. However, here's a link showing how to do with with Xcopy:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q323007&

HTH

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Posted 07 November 2002 - 06:15 PM

looks like xcopy cannot do the job as i am copying the folders from 1 partition to another.

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Posted 07 November 2002 - 07:39 PM

I didn't see anything about it not supporting partitions, so I went ahead and tried it on my workstation and it works fine. The only "quirk" about it is that when I went from "D:\test" and copied that to "E:\", it only copied the *contents* of the test folder and not the folder itself. However, if you make a folder on the new partition and copy to that, it will not only copy over the contents but it will apply the ACLs from your source directory to the target directory.

So, the command looked like this:

Code:

C&#58;\Documents and Settings\clutch>xcopy d&#58;\test "e&#58;\new folder" /e /k /o

And resulted in this:

Code:

D&#58;\test\test.txt
D&#58;\test\tada\New Text Document.txt
2 File&#40;s&#41; copied

It then changed the ACLs on "E:\new folder" to match those of "D:\test", and the subdirectories of "tada" and "another test" were both copied and retained their own ACLs (which had inheritance removed, as you tend to see that in larger deployments). So, was this what you were looking for? It also worked when I copied from D:\ to C:\, where D:\ is the first partition of a 100GB ATA drive and C:\ is the 70GB partition of a RAID 0 SCSI stripe set.