Backup Restore

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Hi,

I have a Windows 2000 Workstations and there were problems with the hard drive and i had to replace it. I took backup of old drive, replaced the hard drive with a new hard drive, and restored new hard drive. Now my problem is that most of the applications dont work with user privileges in new hard drive but work fine with admin privileges. Specifically MS office applications come back and say "that there is not enough disk space" and i should try storing somewhere else. I think the privileges have been messed up while restoring. I tried giving users full privileges for specific documents, but this wont work. Is there something that can be done to get the workstation working again without reinstall.

Anil
 
How exactly did you back up & restore your disk?


Anil said:
Hi,

I have a Windows 2000 Workstations and there were problems with the hard
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drive and i had to replace it. I took backup of old drive, replaced the hard
drive with a new hard drive, and restored new hard drive. Now my problem is
that most of the applications dont work with user privileges in new hard
drive but work fine with admin privileges. Specifically MS office
applications come back and say "that there is not enough disk space" and i
should try storing somewhere else. I think the privileges have been messed
up while restoring. I tried giving users full privileges for specific
documents, but this wont work. Is there something that can be done to get
the workstation working again without reinstall.
 
Hi

I used Retrospect Single server for backup and restore. The backup was done on a remote backup server and the restoration was also done remotely. Retrospect has an option to restore entire disk if the disk is lost. Additionally, i just checked the backup scripts and there was an option saying "Backup Workstation Security Information" and i had not selected this option. I have NTFS partitioned disks. I think i lost all the security information while backing up and restoring.

Anil
 
Anil said:
Hi

I used Retrospect Single server for backup and restore. The backup was
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done on a remote backup server and the restoration was also done remotely.
Retrospect has an option to restore entire disk if the disk is lost.
Additionally, i just checked the backup scripts and there was an option
saying "Backup Workstation Security Information" and i had not selected this
option. I have NTFS partitioned disks. I think i lost all the security
information while backing up and restoring.
Anil
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I think you are correct. You now have to set correct NTFS permissions on
every folder on your disk (or you can just open them up for everybody). You
may also have to re-install some application in order to get the registry
permissions correct.
 
Thanks a lot. I did that. Actually i created new user accounts and copied the files from old user accounts on them. Reset the permissions and everything works fine. Important lesson: Always backup with the security option when dealing with NTFS file system.

Anil
 
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