In the scenario you describe, the person performing the restore specified to append a .nbu suffix to the restored files. NetBackup would not do that automatically.
Interesting. I did a Google search for "file suffix .nbu" and got the following response:
I can confirm, though, that these are not related to NetBackup.
These are not NetBackup related file even though they bear the NBU acronym. Doing a quick Internet search, these are associated with the Nokia PC Suite synchronization software. These appear to be backups of someone's Nokia phone.
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