Reports, Universe, User folders backups

hi All,
We have a scenario here, could you please give some lights on this.
We used BO 3.1 for our client reporting and our one of the important task was to back up all components in the repository
We used to take weekly backup of all reports, universe and user folders as biar files and keep them in safe location, so that we can retrieve as and when required.It was very useful couple of times when users lost their reports by mistakes.
We have moved to BO 4.1 now.
Same procedure followed using promotion management and we took biar files and kept those in safe location . But when we tried to retrieve one of the report the promotion management window, it didn't showed any option to select any component to be promoted else all components where default selected and i can prompt the whole bunch together.
Could you please suggest a proper solution to resolve this backup issue, also let me know if we have other options for the same

Hi Manesh,
    Try to copy the folder where you save the backups in the BO server, in order to acces from the CMC to the folder structure and you would be able to copy and paste the files or open it in Rich Client and check it.
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