How to Back Up and Restore NTFS and Share Permissions

[daniele]

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Backup and Restore of NTFS Permissions


Use this command to backup NTFS permissions:

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icacls d:data /save ntfsperms.txt /t /c

Use this command to restore them:

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icacls d: /restore ntfsperms.txt

Note that in the command to save the permissions, I specified the target folder D:Data, but when I restored them, I specified just D: as the target. Icacls is a little funky like that, and here’s why.