Windows Backup API?

[carmst]

Hi,

I was wondering if there was any support (or planned support) for using the Windows backup API to back up files, like "robocopy /b"? I tried checking the option in SuperFlexible for "Windows API" but this didn't seem to do it.

I want to replicate between two Windows servers that have very complex, non-inherited NTFS permissions, and for various reasons adding in a user or group to the NTFS ACL on all files & folders isn't possible. Robocopy in backup mode bypasses the NTFS permissions if the account it's running as is a Backup Operator on the source server, which works fine, but I'd prefer to use SuperFlexible with its nice GUI and mail notifications if possible.

Thanks!

[superflexible]

Hello,

thanks for the suggestion! Strangely, this feature is rarely requested, but I think it would be very good to add. I hope it can be added some time in 2010 or early 2011.

[d033e22ae348aeb5660fc2140aec35850c4da997]

If I understand you correctly, you can try to run this robocopy script in the before or after script. I have setup jobs running the service with an account that has full permissions of the folder structure you are trying to replicate to and this will only copy the permissions and not the files so it should not set or reset any of the flags on the files but update the permissions you set on the source directory to the destination.


robocopy.exe \\source\share \\destination\share /E /IS /COPY:S /R:0 /W:0

[carmst]

@admin

That's not not the issue, I'm trying to backup files & folders my accounts doesn't have permission to access. robocopy /b let me do this if I'm a backup operator on the server.

@superflexible

That's great! At the moment I'm running robocopy /b as a pre-job task to fill in the gaps but it's really slow.