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From: dwd@usenet.umr.edu (Dan DeNise)
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Subject: Re: Moving directories while retaining trustee lists & attributes
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Date: 1 Feb 91 21:05:33 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.102234.3463@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1991Jan25.231553.28767@techbook.com>
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In article <1991Jan25.231553.28767@techbook.com> Ken Haynes writes:
>                                               Some tape backup software,
>MAYNARD and PALINDROME TNA offer utilities that will allow you to copy
>directories from tape to "other" drivers. Other than where they came from
>that is.  They also retain trustee lists, etc. (at least this is what they
>claim) 

Palindrome's TNA can restore to a different directory than you saved from,
but in doing so all the files from the entire subtree you are restoring are
put together in the single directory you redirected the restore to.  It does
NOT rebuild the subtree there!  We ran into this while trying to find a way
to move several department's home directories from SYS: to department owned
volumes.  We ended up using a utility called NINFO we downloaded off Netwire.
It saves all the trustee rights for a volume into a file.  If you edit the 
file and change the server and volume name in the header, then you can restore
those rights to a different server.  I don't know if it can be made to work
if you're just moving things to a different directory on the same volume.

Dan DeNise
Computing Services
University of Missouri-Rolla
Missouri's Technological University
c0016@umrvmb.umr.edu