BRC - How to deal with Denied Permission

Written By Tami Sutcliffe (Super Administrator)

Updated at August 31st, 2023

In order to deal with permission denied messages, the server may need to have permissions manually set to the files.

In order to do this, follow these procedures:

1. Go to the path where the files are being denied permission.

2. Type the following command:

cacls <directory>

3. This will list all the users that have permission to the folder. If the users listed do NOT show the backup user, the backup user does NOT have permissions to the folder.

4. To set permissions, input the following command

cacls <directory>/e /c /t /g doman/user:F

5. This will process all the files and grant the user permissions to the folder. Re-run the back up job and the permissions should clear up.

Note: Cacls is now deprecated, please use icacls.

6. If you get this error, go into the folder having permission errors and input the following command

icacls * /T /C /grant domain\user:(oi)(ci)F

7. This will process the files and grant user permissions to the folder. If none of them fail, re-run the back up job and the permissions should clear up.

Note: If both commands fail at setting permissions, do the following:


8. The user has no ownership of the folder. Input the following to take ownership:

takeown /F <directory>

9. After this is done, re-try step 4 again.