Dan,

thank you for your reply. Our NBU version is 3.4.1.  

Sorry, but I cant agree with you. 

As I said in my first mail, the archive bit is not a secure base for backups
because everybody can set or unset it. 

TIR backups are necessary for point in time restores because otherwise 
-you will have restored deleted files  (deleted files will of course be
restored if they were not deleted before the point in time of the restore)
-you will not have restored moved and renamed files and
- newly installed files will not be restored because they arent backed up at
all.

Imagine your users have deleted a lot of files in a lot of different
directories, if you restore without TIR your users will be very confused.

Imagine your users have moved files and directories and your restore doesnt
reflect this: they will look for their files and dont find them.

And your users wouldnt understand it if you would declare that their newly
installed files are simply lost.

So I think TIR ackups are a must.

Gerd Leibrock
EDV-Systemprogrammierung

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