Veeam / NTFS Restore Issue

[dcwhitworth]

Can anyone suggest some ideas for this issue we've got ? I've got a few thoughts but would like to try a wider audience before I move forwards

 

We are running Windows Server 2012 R2 on VMWare 6.0 and backing up using Veeam 9.0

 

We have a volume where NTFS permissions have become subtly corrupt which is affecting the access of some but by no means all users. Unfortunately since this corruption a significant amount of work has been done on the volume.

 

We now have the situation where we have backups with corrupt NTFS but up to date data and backups with correct NTFS but out of date data.

 

Can anyone suggest a recovery scenario that will leave us with a volume with correct NTFS and up to date data ? The file-level restore options seem very limited with Veeam.

[mrwoberts]

I'm thinking this will need to be scripted - Powershell, or other...

In summary, you'd be resetting the permission of files and folders in a way that maintains who exactly has permission to a specific file/folder.

[Duke5A]

I agree with mrwoberts. Scripting this to recreate permissions from scratch is probably going to be your best bet. Are these home folders that are messed up? I'm looking for a way for the script to be able to match folders with users. If these are in fact home folders with their names the same as the AD account name this would be easy.

[strawberry]

ntfs fix by wisesoft is your friend.

[dcwhitworth]

Sadly this is a staff folder with myriad, bewildering and poorly documented permissions set (project ongoing to get rid / overhaul it).

 

In the end I did the following -

 

Restore VMDK file from last known good(ish) NTFS date

Remove faulty disk from VM guest

Attach restored one to it

Run CHKDSK to fix underlying problems

Do a file restore fro the latest backup using the 'Copy to' option, leaving the 'restore NTFS permission and shares' unticked.

 

Took about a day all told but seems to have worked.