Windows 10: Set up user account profile to be readable by another user?

My goal is to set up permissions on a user account profile to be readable by another user. I'm setting up such scheme for an automated backup purpose.

So, say I have two standard user accounts -- User A that is a general user of the system, whose data will be backed up:






And BackupUser that will be doing the backing up:





I want to set up permissions on the User A's profile folder C:\Users\User A to be readable by BackupUser.

So I start a cmd as administrator and run the following icacls command:
icacls "C:\Users\User A" /t /c /l /q /grant DESKTOP-69AQNQQ\BackupUserRX)
But it fails with errors of access denied to some folders.

OK. So I downloaded PSEXEC and first run my cmd as SYSTEM hoping to prevent access denied errors:
PSEXEC -i -s -d CMD
and then run the same command from it. But it still gives me the same errors:





So as a result when I try to copy the C:\Users\User A folder from a process running under BackupUser user account it fails with, you guessed it, "access denied" error.

So what am I doing wrong here?

PS. I'm doing these tests on Windows 10 Pro.

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Hello,

I appreciate if you could test this issue by setting up another User Profile. Suggest you to try setting up another User Profile to see if it makes any difference.
Refer the article Set up accounts on Windows 10.
Once you set up another User Profile, check and see if the same thing happens there. This might give us the clue on the root cause.

 

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Hello,

Please cross check this issue by setting up another User Profile. Some times problem with User Profile cause this kind of behavior. Setting up another User Profile will give us clue on the root cause of the issue.
Refer the article Set up accounts on Windows 10.

Keep us posted the outcome to guide you further.