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by frogman

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I have about aprox 100GB of data to backup on a file server that is also a dc that runs on w2k3 server ent.

I am interested, I have made the usual backup strategy, monday noraml backup, tue-fri differential backup on a network share for now, later I will get backup disk cartridges.
I have used the append option in the backup.
I am interested, when the backup week is over, and a user overwrites a file that was in the first week backuped, and now in the second week backuped again but the overwritten version of the for example excel file, how can I restore the firs file that is old say about 14 days, and has been ovewrittne twice, but I want the first version. That is scenario that confuses me.

Thanks in advance.

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by charliespencer

I have not used NT Backup in a long time. Does it have an option to restore the first version with a different name or to a different directory? If it does, you can restore the first file with a different name or to a different folder and not overwrite the second version.

Another way is to give the second version a new name while you restore the first version.
For example:

Rename filename.txt to filename_2.txt
Restore version 1 of filename.txt
Rename the restored filename.txt to filename_1.txt
Rename filename_2.txt back to filename.txt

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