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

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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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