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Should FFS adopt the inharitance and the permissions from C:\Users to Z:\Backup\<server>\Users?

Due to the confusing situation I made a step back and analyzed the backup from the server system to the USB drive. I'm trying to synchronize C:\Users to Z:\Backup\<server>\Users.

My statement above in the initial part that the backup works fine was wrong. The user task with admin rights don't adopt ...

Thank you for the inspiring assistance.

In both cases the folder ../Users will be created.
Adding SYSTEM to the network share permissions and check "Full Control" hasn't changed the result above (2 errors with missing SetFileSecurity).
Unchecking "execute with highest permissions" leads to the ...

From my point of view now I followed your recommendacion.

At the server system I removed the folder <Drive>:\Backup\<system>\Users. At the client system I unchecked the option "Fail-safe file copy" and set "Copy DACL, SACL, Owner, Group" in FFS. I created a user task for one of the users with the ...

Haven`t find any other solution. Is it right, that you mean with „make sure the FreeFileSync process is running with admin rights” to use the task option „run with highest rights”?

Uwe

Thank you for the quick reaction.

I already used the option "File-save file copy" and no other option. To get admin rights I changed the user task option "run with highest rights" and nothing changed in the resulting log.

Now I`m not sure if you mean what I tried. I`ve to read how to run a task ...

Hello,

I set up a backup project with 2 systems (Windows 10). One of them is connected via a USB drive to a hard disk where the backups of the 2 systems are copied to. I use user tasks for the synchronisation. The structure of the folders is as followed:
<Drive>:\Backup\<system>\Users\<user>\<user ...