Turns out after talking to the tech who did the restore, the the tech that
built the new 2K3 server and filesystems had created a skeleton directory
structure on the G: drive with the incorrect permissions. The tech that did
the restore figured it was a clean filesystem and didn't replace them.

So, they shot themselves in the foot! But until I could PROVE that, it was
TSM's fault!
Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Joe Howell
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:51 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: NTFS Security on restores


The only "issues" that I can think of would be Windows ACLs and SIDs.  Was
the NT server upgraded to W2K3?  Or was the data moved from one machine to
another?  If so, there may be a SID issue because you're laying down files
on a different system.  At any rate, there are documented MS caveats for
copying files across filesystems; if you do so you generally lose the
original ACLs and get new ones based upon the user that is doing the
copying.  So perhaps the new permissions on the W2K3 system are the same as
the Administrator perms, or whoever the TSM client runs as.


Bill Boyer <bill.boyer AT VERIZON DOT NET> wrote:
I have a client that migrated an NT server's data to a windows 2003 server.
The NT data was backed up using a 5.1.6 client version to a TSM 5.1.6 server
on AIX 5.1. The Windows2003 server restore was done using a 5.2.0.1 client.
After the restore they saw that the original security permissions on the
directories were not correct. They tell me that the NT server and
Windows2003 server are in the same domain. On some of the directories, the
user/groups were there, but the administrator wasn't, and on others the
administrator was there but the user/group permissions weren't restored.

Are there "issues" restoring across Window versions like this??

Bill Boyer
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??

Joe Howell
Shelter Insurance Companies
Columbia, MO

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