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How to move NTFS permissions?

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by dripec

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W2K, have migrated about 200 Gigs from one volume to another on a file server. Then found out, that filesystem NTFS permissions on files and directories were not copied with the data. I still have old volume with all the data and correct permissionsavailable but some of the data on new volume has allready changed.
I am looking for a program that will allow me to read NTFS file and directory permissions and reaply those permissions to already copied files on a new volume. The data is very sensitive.
Please help!

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by usvirus01

Use the built-in backup utility of Windows 2k to backup all the source files, and restore those on the destination partition/drive with the option "Do not replace existing files if they are newer". This built-in utility retains all the permissions.
The problem of reapplying all the existing permissions sounds great.

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