Export disk contents as virtual disks does it preserve the NTFS permissions?

[haleyh44]

I am migrating from a 2008 physical file server to a 2016 VM. My plan was to just create the VM and use veeam to export the disk contents as VMDK and attach that to my new VM. Well after doing so I lost all my NTFS permissions on that drive.
So my question is when exporting to a VMDK does it lose all the NTFS permissions?

[Gostev]

Honestly I don't see how this process can possibly lose anything at all, considering what it does is merely placing a bit-identical image of the original disk into VMDK container. "Loosing" anything at all from the source file system would require making binary modifications to the image, which export process certainly does not do.

[bdufour]

are u sure u didnt just lose share permissions? share permissions are stored at the OS level, ntfs will be stored at the disk level. your share permissions are stored in a reg key that can be exported and imported on the new server.