Non-tech staff setting share permissions

[ajbritton]

You could write a script which automatically puts Administrator and System access back onto every file/folder in a particular path and run it every night before backup.

 

EDIT: Sorry, I just no saw that eean already suggested that. I would recommend SETACL rather than CACLS/XCACLS however.

[NetworkGeezer]

Another thing to watch out for is if you do differential or incremental backups.

 

The act of re-setting permissions causes archive attribute to be set (i.e. files have been modified since last full/incrmental backup).

 

This could mean the size of the backup would be larger than normal.