topic Re: lost access permissions on restored CIFS folders from snapshot or ndmp in ONTAP Discussions

lost access permissions on restored CIFS folders from snapshot or ndmp

FelixZhou — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:40:04 GMT

We keep seeing same permission issues on restored CIFS folders either from snapshots or ndmp backups.

We manually fixed the permissions on restored folder, but all sub-folders and files have different permissions assigned. We used robcopy to restore permissions, but extra one still assigned on all files under, looks it inherited from parent folder. is there any way to overcome this issue?

thanks.

Re: lost access permissions on restored CIFS folders from snapshot or ndmp

tahmad — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 05:22:47 GMT

You can change permission on files and folder from the filer.

Please note, this process is not the recommended method for NTFS ACL management. It is recommended to use the Windows 'Security' tab whenever possible. This process should be used when NTFS ACL management is not available via Windows.

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