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Backup and restore of shares

I will be moving 1200 user shares from one ser to another (2000 to 2003). We backup our servers nightly and recently I tested restoring a share. Apparently when you backup a share, you can't recreate the share on a restore. Does anyone know how I can easly move 1200 user shares without recreating them manually?

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Beldoran

On win2k the shares are stored in the registry in the key
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares

MS article on "Saving and restoring existing Windows shares"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;125996

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Beldoran

sorry, link above also has 2003 info in it.

mrielf

Check Hyena:
http://www.systemtools.com/hyena/
On my previous work we used this tool.

"Share Administration

Hyena incorporates a full range of share administration functions, including:

Creating, modifying, removing shares on any Windows NT/2000 computer
Browsing shares, and share directory and file contents
Modification of share permissions; viewing all share rights for entire server
Viewing connections to a share
Copying share definitions from one computer to another <-- I think you need this...
Integration with Windows Explorer shell for share directory operations
NTFS file security display for shared directory and file permissions reporting"

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rindi

If you have backed up the "System State" you should be able to restore user and Active Directory info that way. With most Server backupsoftware you have the possibility to backup the system state.

mchristo63

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yes, and i do. but with CA Brightstor I have been unable to successfully restore a share, only the folder.

rindi

Brightstor isn't familiar to me. I've used Arcserve (also CA) but luckily I never had to restore System Data as our servers never had important system data. We used them mainly to host lotus Domino and domino did its own user accounting...