Re: Rebuild File Server

Jane Doe wrote:
Windows 2003 SP1

I need to rebuild the file server and while I know how to backup the registry entries for the shares I'm concerned about the NTFS permissions. I'm planning on backup of all the files via Veritas, so the question is: Will the restore of the files also restore the NTFS permissions? Or is there a reg entry that also has those.

File permissions are saved with the file on disk -- no registry involved -- and should be respected by the backup application.

Permissions are attached to unqiue IDs of user accounts, and if the accounts that had permissions were local to the server (as opposed to being from elsewhere like a domain) those accounts and hence those permissions won't exist when the files are restored.
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