How to Back Up and Restore NTFS and Share Permissions
How to Back Up and Restore NTFS and Share Permissions One thing that has made the NTFS permissions piece of this simpler is the Icacls tool. Icacls was developed for Windows Vista as a replacement for tools such as Calls , Xcacls , and Xcacls.vbs . It was also included in Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. Backup and Restore of Share Permissions To backup share permissions, export the Shares registry key. Open Regedit to the following location: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares Right-click the Shares registry key and select Export . Give it a file name such as shareperms.reg . When you want to restore the permissions, double-click shareperms.reg to import it back into the registry. Use the Reg tool to backup the registry key from ...