Copying File / Folder permissions across servers

[joe.ambrose]

I'm using a third party utillity to copy files. it can copy file and
folder permissions as well.
When i try this the copy fails with a 1314 "you do not have
permission..." error.

The O/S is W2K servers as source win2003 server as destination.

the user account is a member of domain admins and backup operators.

the ASP that maintains our source server has hardened the OS. it
appears that even a domain admin cannot do some of the functions it
should.

Are there any other security / user rights that i need to have to copy
file/folder permissions. ?

Thanks in advance.


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[Steven L Umbach]

Verify that you are indeed logged on as a local administrator. Possibly the
domain admins global group was removed from the administrators group on that
computer. The other thing I would check is that your user account is in a
group that has the user right for backup files and directories in case your
utility uses that privilege. You could also enable auditing of privilege
user for failure on the source server and then look in the security log for
failure events that may indicate and user rights that your account
acks. --- Steve

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

There is, for file/folder copy with permissions, nothing at all
magical about being in any group, Domain Admins, Administrators,
etc. What matters is the ability to read the source, including read
of extended attributes (to get the permissions to be copied) and
the ability to write somewhere. Once the copy is written, the account
will be owner, but might inherit permissions that do not allow it to
change the permissions on the copied. Hence, one may need to
first grant more complete permissions on the copied.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I believe some copy utilities also will or can use the user right for back
up files and folders to overcome the user not having read permissions to the
folders/files as long as the user has the user right to backup files and
folders. Robocopy has a as an option to use backup mode with the /B
itch. --- Steve

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

Sure, anything that uses the backup/restore APIs should
have NTFS permission bypass with the user right.
I was commenting on the requirements to copy files/folders,
which should be sufficient even with the unnamed third-party
utility of the OP, at least up to the setting of resulting copied
file/folder permissions.
It sounds like the OP's utility does not use the backup/restore
APIs, or if it does the account in use does not have the user
right, and that the target location is not set so that the copied
inherit sufficient permissions for changing permissions.

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

Did you, are you able to, do a test with the target
drive mapped and then using xcopy with the /o or
/x switches ??