Restoring Share Permissions to Original Server

[BarbieGirl]

ARCserve cannot restore share permissions when files / folders are restored to "original location" - Please tell me this is not true!!!

What is the point of restoring if you have to manually recreate all the shares!

 

[rmv]

hmmm I'm surprised you can do a restore back to it's original location. I always had to drill down to the Client Agent and select the location to restore to. Even when it's to the same location. When I leave that bullet checked to restore to it's original location it always failed. But the share permissions do get restored with the restore.

 

[BarbieGirl]

I finally found a paper on the ca site. It CANNOT be done unless registry is restored also!! Their answer makes sense though.

http://support.ca.com/techbases/asnt/16128.html

The long and short of it:

"Unlike NT directories and files, share information can not be restored directly with ARCserve. That is because share information and permissions are held in Window NT's registry, so in order to restore this data, the registry keys related to shares need tobe restored.

If only data (files and directories) is restored from a backup, but not the registry, shares that existed on the directories originally will not restored."