Copy all permissions from win 2003 to ready NAS

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hey guys,

At work I have just installed 2 Netgear Ready NAS boxes to replace our old windows 2003 as our file server.

I intend to have one NAS live and the other as a backup that gets done over night using robocopy.

My problem is that if I run robocopy /copyall to copy all the data from the win 2003 machine to the NAS box it doesn't copy over the NTFS permissions with all the data and folders.

I have been told that this is because the NAS is based of a UNIX OS and therefore doesn't recognizes the deny permissions and so drops them when copying the data.

This sounds like it could be true, but having checked most of the permissions within the file structure it seems that i have next to on deny permissions set.

So, I can't be the first person in the world to move data and permissions from a win server 2003 machine to a NAS box. Have you ever done this before??

If so, did you have the same problem as me and how did you overcome it??

Any thoughts and insight that will help would be fantastic.

Cheers in advance guys

:)
 
I've just tried teracopy pro but it has had the same result.

It can copy the file ok and does copy the group permissions, but not any of the user ones.
 
secure copy won't work as it keeps telling me that one or more of the servers isn't part of the domain when it quite clearly is!

I must have done something wrong somewhere!!!
 
Salamander Copy will copy files with copy date/timestamps, permissions and archive bits. Free on trial use.

Just select what you want in the advanced section of the copy dialogue. Did a 500GB copy of Domain File data with it last month.
 
blastman said:
Are you sure??

It seems odd that both robycopy and xcopy have the same result....
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Yep, I recall one of the NAS engineers bought it when he migrated our file server over to NAS. The consult has left now so not sure what command but will try and find out.
As for group permissions and user permissions, the only problems were with local groups/users. Because they were not domain specific, they were dropped. You could try and use Grpcpy to convert local groups to global groups and fix it that way. Dont think there is a solution for user perms, but then m$ dont like us using user perms over group perms...
 
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I've just done some testing and robycopy [source] [destination] /copyall works fine when copying from the 2003 server to my windows 7 machine. It seesm that the NAS just won't take those permissions.


ARRRHHHHH!!!!!!
 
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