copying many folders with not inherited permissions

Vitas

10/6/22, 8:39 PM

So we have this folder with hundreds of user folders (not sure what they are used for but there is mostly Desktop, Documents and Favorites). We need to back them up to another disk, but the problem is that the ACL is not inheriting from above folder and all subfolders have permissions only to their owners which are various users. The only way to access those folders is to change owner for example to administrators and then add permissions to them. I wonder what would be a way to backup such folder structure. Would I really need to change owner on all of the folders and add permissions to whoever runs the robocopy? I am afraid if something could break when owners change from their creators to something else. Even if that would be the only way to do it, is there some script to do this easily instead of thousands of clicks?

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joeqwerty

10/6/22, 9:42 PM

Do you want to back them up or do you want to move them?

Vitas

10/7/22, 9:22 AM

I don't know why does this matter at all, but I mentioned robocopy - so that means I want to just copy those folders elsewhere

joeqwerty

10/7/22, 11:45 AM

It matters because by the sound of it these are redirected folders and if you want to move them there's a specific way to do that. Robocopy can be used to move or copy files and folders.

Vitas

10/8/22, 6:22 PM

I am not sure but it doesn't look like redirected folders. They are on E: drive. Redirected folders would be on \\path wouldn't they? How can I check it?

joeqwerty

10/8/22, 8:51 PM

From the perspective of the redirected folder they'd show a UNC path, but they're stored on a Windows Volume on a server, which has a drive letter. If you're looking at these folders on your file server then you'd be looking at them from the Windows Volume (drive letter) they're stored on. The quickest way to confirm this is to find one of the users who has a folder there and look at the location tab of their Documents folder properties and see where it is.

Vitas

10/16/22, 1:23 PM

finally my colleague checked it - they are not redirected. There is no location tab on the documents folder properties

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Vitas

10/16/22, 2:32 PM

found a solution: create a scheduled task which runs as SYSTEM and it can read the files! The scheduled task runs a CMD file containing robocopy command with /copyall parameter to preseve folder permissions

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EN: copying many folders with not inherited permissions

TH: คัดลอกโฟลเดอร์จำนวนมากโดยไม่ได้รับสิทธิ์

RO: copierea multor foldere cu permisiuni nemoștenite

RU: копирование многих папок с неунаследованными разрешениями

VI: sao chép nhiều thư mục không có quyền kế thừa

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