Robocopy - NTFS Access is Denied

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I am trying to backup a disk from one share to another using robocopy with the following command:

robocopy \\servername\E$ \\servername\F$\Copy /E /ZB /copyall /r:5 /w:30 /dcopy:T /log:"C:\Temp\log.log" /v /fp /tee /eta

However whenever I try to execute the command (with Admin privileges), I get the following error:

ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying NTFS Security to Destination Directory \\servername\F$\Copy
Access is Denied.

Now the NTFS permissions for the user logged in has full control, as well as the Administrator account on both shares (E and F). I am running the command from a Windows 2012 server and pointing the source/destination to a Windows 2003 server (which I cannot run the following robocopy command as its an older version). The share is fully accessible from the W2012 server, therefore this should not be the problem.

I have already looked at this question which has not solved my issue as I already have the /ZB parameter.

Jonathan Davies

Posted 2015-10-14T08:10:35.887

Reputation: 111

99.999% you have just tried but i cannot understand if you have done manually the simple copy of just one file to \\servername\F$\Copy to verify that it is possible to write there. Just to transform that should not in with high probability is not :) – Hastur – 2015-10-14T08:45:35.187

Interestingly I can copy a file on the 2003 server (where the drives/shares are) from E to F/Copy. But I cannot do it from the 2012 server using the share in file explorer (\servername\E$ and \servername\F$\Copy? Not sure why this is, as I am logged in as the same user. Maybes its the share permissions, although I cannot edit because it says This has been shared for administrative purposes. The permissions cannot be set. (Even though I am an admin). @Hastur – Jonathan Davies – 2015-10-14T09:33:50.273

So sadly that should not became it seems it is. :-) What do you mean with you are logged with the same user? The same couple username/password on the W2003? BTW to read so the error message it seems it's not enough a common user you should run the command as the administrator (the user admin or administrator of the W2003 and not a privileged user of W2012). I suppose you will receive the same error even if you simply try to copy a file from W2012 to \\servernameW2013\F$\Copy. – Hastur – 2015-10-14T09:48:45.517

The same domain admin user (roaming profile). I cannot execute the command from the W2003 server because it has an outdated version of robocopy. Oddly enough, I can copy files from E: to F:\Copy on the W2003, but I cannot on the W2012. (just with write click, copy and paste) @Hastur – Jonathan Davies – 2015-10-14T13:32:39.117

Odd enough. :) I suppose even E is on the W2003 server. Can you copy from a local file (C:\) on W2012 to the remote directory \\servernameW2012\F$\Copy? If even this is not possible it's definitively a problem of permissions on the W2003 server, and over there you have to investigate and solve. – Hastur – 2015-10-14T13:37:13.753

Nope I cannot do that either. It must be the share permissions, even though I cannot access them. Strange? @Hastur – Jonathan Davies – 2015-10-14T14:15:07.053

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

– Hastur – 2015-10-14T14:19:27.250

Answers

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The robocopy command was perfect. It turns out that the F:\ drive which is located at nas3, does not like multiple connections at once.

Therefore the solution was too:

  1. iSCSI unmount F:\ on the W2003 machine
  2. iSCSI mount F:\ on the W2012

The command ran perfectly after the changes.

Jonathan Davies

Posted 2015-10-14T08:10:35.887

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