I can confirm that these are not locked files. I have also gone in and manually tested explicitly setting the permissions for a folder to grant domain admin full control (which requires first taking ownership and re-applying the old users access) and this works with robocopy. I would like to figure out a way to get around this though so that I dont have to manually go in and reapply permissions to folders.
I have tried setting up a new user and putting them in the admin group as well as the backup admin group and neither work. Changing the permissions works, but this is not the ideal solution. Backup admin would be the best, and should work, but for some reason this is not the case. Any help would be greatly appreciated.