Folder Permissions on a Large Root Folder

[RSR]

Hi Chaps,

Bit of a random question.

I have to change the permissions on a whole root level folder and filter them down etc... Normally this wouldn’t be a problem and its click, click and click and its done. Now I can do this process using the same method, but want to get this all done in one weekend.

However, this folder does not sit on a physical volume. It’s Tiered over 2 NetApp CIF’s shares and a HP NAS Server using a Acopia ARX500 to present the data as a logical volume.

The root folder in question is roughly around 20Tb in size and its on logical volume on a tiered storage system.

So using the normal method of change permissions in windows GUI takes a year and a day and often crashes the box. I know xcacls.exe is another method for doing this but i have never used it.

What would be the most effect solution for this problem?

Thanks

Andy

 

[morfmedia]

Yup Xcacls is probably your best bet to be honest, very scriptable.

Make sure you look into whether your backup system can cope as most would re backup any modified files thus trying to backup 20TB+ overnight.....

 

[RSR]

Yea i did think that.

20TB overnight i think its a bit too much for our backup system.

Thanks

Andy