Barber, Layne (Contractor) wrote:
>  Modification: How to restore NT File System (NTFS) permissions only
> (including recreating the share permissions) to an existing folder.
>
> The NetBackup Backup, Archive and Restore user interface does not allow
> you to restore just a folder or just the folder structure without
> restoring some of the folder contents. This is a problem in the event
> that the NTFS permissions were accidentally removed from a folder or
> share, but the folder/share contents are intact. In this situation, the
> administrator would only need to restore the folder/share permissions
> and not some or all of the contents of that folder.
>
> 1. From command-line, use the bprestore command found at
> <install_path>\NetBackup\bin\ to restore only the parent folder NTFS
> permissions (and share permissions if applicable), while excluding all
> subfolders and files.
>
> bprestore -s <start_date> -e <end_date> <path_folder_to_be_restored\>
> <!path_folder_to_be_restored\*>
>
> Example (figure 1):
> The following command restores a folder named 'test' to the root of the
> C: volume, which was backed up between 1PM and 2PM on 2/5/2005, while
> excluding everything contained inside the folder 'test':
>
> bprestore -s 02/05/2005 13:00:00 -e 02/05/2005 14:00:00 C:\test\
> !C:\test\*
>
> Figure 1
>  
>
> 2. If the folder restored was a share, the Windows 'Server' service must
> be restarted for the share to become reactivated.
>
> NOTE: If the parent folder already exists with subfolders and files
> prior to restore, the restored parent folder permissions will not
> automatically propagate down to existing subfolders and files.
>
> NOTE 2: The drive letter, path, and files specified are case sensitive.
> The specified drive letter must be upper case and the path and file
> names must match exact case character for character or the job will
> finish as "incomplete" Status 5, and this message will be listed in the
> Activity Monitor | Job Details | Detailed Status tab:
>
> The restore failed to recover the requested files(5)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
> Jonathan (Contractor)
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 06:18
> To: dave.markham at fjserv.net; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore windows permissions
>
> My suggestion would be to restore the files to a different location,
> then use robocopy (or something similar) to only replicate the
> permissions.  I'm not 100% sure this would even work, but I doubt NBU is
> going to restore file permissions only.
>  
> -Jonathan
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu on behalf of Dave
> Markham
> Sent: Wed 10/4/2006 5:33 AM
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore windows permissions
>
>
>
> Running Netbackup 5.0 mp6 on Solaris 9 with mixture of solaris, linux
> and windows clients.
>
> Does anyone know if its possible to restore file permissions without
> actually restoring the files themselves?
>
> Someone has tried setting permissions on 50gb of files over the network
> and it crashed loosing all file permissions and ownership. I can get the
> windows guys to set global permissions for Netbackup but a lot of the
> files under sub folders  different permissions originally.
>
> Thanks
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Thanks for that ill give it a go