Originally Posted by TB0ne

Good point, and you're exactly right.

To the OP, though, related to your original post...what are you using currently to take your backups? It could be that the software itself maintains a database as to what's written, that you could query via SQL (like Tivoli Storage Manager, for example), and see file names/locations.

And it always has entertained me over the years that end-users can't tell you where the file is, or what it's called...but somehow 'know' they need it restored. The follow-up questions are similarly entertaining..."Well, since you don't know what drive you saved it to, what the file name is...what program did you use to create it?", "I used MICROSOFT...that's all I know", ".......".

I asked someone one time "Since you don't know where it was, or what it was named, then how do you know it's missing??"