Not if you have a directory containing 1000 files with varying file ownerships. While I agree robocopy is good for keeping multiple shares in sync, it is terrible if you care about the ACL's since it trashes the owner information. You will notice this especially if you have any ACL's based on CREATOR OWNER. The best way to do this is to simply use NTBACUP. And, if you are on Windows 2000, you don't even need a tape drive. -----Original Message----- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:EZiots@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:53 PM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: OT. Bulk permission changes use a setowner script or subinacl.exe to take care of the owner issue. EZ -----Original Message----- From: Frank Monroe [mailto:Frank.Monroe@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:51 PM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: OT. Bulk permission changes Except that object ownership will be lost. -----Original Message----- From: Angus Macdonald [mailto:Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:29 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: OT. Bulk permission changes I've just had a play with robocopy and it looks as if it will do everything I need (apart from migrating shares and I've got regedit for that). Thanks Angus -----Original Message----- From: Magnus [mailto:magnus@xxxxxxxx] Sent: 28 March 2003 14:27 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: OT. Bulk permission changes Use robocopy to copy the files there is an option with robocopy to bring over share/file and folder permissions with it using a /secfix Magnus -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Angus Macdonald Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 5:38 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] OT. Bulk permission changes Sorry about the OT post. I have just installed a new NAS system and am shortly going to start consolidating all of my various fileservers onto it. Once I move the files onto the NAS, they'll inherit default permissions for the folder they are going into, correct? I therefore need to restore the proper permissions once the files have been moved. I remember seeing a very elegant batch file ages ago that would generate a permissions list (using CACLS) of all files then later parse the list and reapply the relevant permissions. Does anyone know where I can obtain this file now? I seem to have lost my copy. Regards Angus ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Emergent Online EOL's Universal Printer new Features include: Network Printing, Pagestreaming, 2400 DPI. No Client Software Required! http://www.go-eol.com/ ********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Emergent Online EOL's Universal Printer new Features include: Network Printing, Pagestreaming, 2400 DPI. No Client Software Required! http://www.go-eol.com/ ********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Emergent Online EOL's Universal Printer new Features include: Network Printing, Pagestreaming, 2400 DPI. No Client Software Required! http://www.go-eol.com/ ********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Emergent Online EOL's Universal Printer new Features include: Network Printing, Pagestreaming, 2400 DPI. No Client Software Required! http://www.go-eol.com/ ********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Emergent Online EOL's Universal Printer new Features include: Network Printing, Pagestreaming, 2400 DPI. No Client Software Required! http://www.go-eol.com/ ********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - Emergent Online EOL's Universal Printer new Features include: Network Printing, Pagestreaming, 2400 DPI. No Client Software Required! http://www.go-eol.com/ ********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm