Copying users files without permissions

[Dan Williams]

I'm trying to move our SBS 2000 server to new hardware and am attempting to
Xcopy our users and company folders to the new machine.

Obviously i want to be able to keep all the file permissions intact, but
i'm struggerling to copy files that the Administrator doesn't have
permission for. Is there anyway i can do this using xcopy? It does appear
that the Administrators group has ownership to all the Users and Company
folders, just not permissions to read them all. I don't want to give
Administrator permissions to everyones private folders, as there's likely
to be some confidential info that i'm not supposed to have access too!!

I've heard about Robocopy, would this do the job for me? Also, do you have
to buy the resource kit to be able to use this, or is it freely available
to download from somewhere?

 

[Jeremy Winston]

I'm trying to move our SBS 2000 server to new hardware and am attempting to
Xcopy our users and company folders to the new machine.

Obviously i want to be able to keep all the file permissions intact, but
i'm struggerling to copy files that the Administrator doesn't have
permission for. Is there anyway i can do this using xcopy? It does appear
that the Administrators group has ownership to all the Users and Company
folders, just not permissions to read them all. I don't want to give
Administrator permissions to everyones private folders, as there's likely
to be some confidential info that i'm not supposed to have access too!!

I've heard about Robocopy, would this do the job for me? Also, do you have
to buy the resource kit to be able to use this, or is it freely available
to download from somewhere?

In NT4 I believe the BACKUP account had full read rights to all files for
the purpose of doing backups. Perhaps the same is true for SBS 2K.
Looking in my W2K Pro Users & Groups, I see there's a "Backup Operators" group.
Perhaps you could add the Admin account to that group.

Otherwise, you could add Admin read rights to all files & folders.

HTH,
-Jeremy

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem with robocopy so I don't think that is the answer for you. I suggest backing the data up then restoring would be a way around the problem. If you run the backup program with a service account which is a member of the backup operators group you should be able to get into any folder or file regardless of the permissions on it. For some reason this does not work when using copy programs such as Xcopy or Robocopy. If you manage to find a way around this please let us know.