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You do these sorts of "null backups" when you want to enable after imaging online so that the NEXT backup will have all of the pieces necessary. Sometimes (as seems to be the case with James) you just don't have enough disk space to make an extra. Also, if memory serves, you cannot enable replication online unless ai is already enabled -- so if you're trying to do that you would get stuck making two consecutive backups and only really needing one of them. It would be really nice if you could enable ai and get the archiver running ONLINE without having to make a fresh backup. Not having enough disk space and not having an offsite backup are problems of their own 
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