You can use wildcards when you specify the content for a subclient.
The search for subclient content is not case-sensitive.
Note
If the subclient content consists of wildcard characters and no eligible files are found for the backup, the backup operation can still successfully complete.
"<MR>." filters the files with same name as extension and not the folder
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Example string with wildcard |
What the example string matches |
Examples of files that are filtered |
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<MR>.bak |
<MR>.bak would filter all the files that have .bak extension |
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* (Any Number of Characters)
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Example string with wildcard |
What the example string matches |
Examples of files and folders that are backed up |
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*.docx |
All files that have the .docx file extension. |
Are backed up:
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C:\Agenda\*.docx |
All files that meet the following criteria:
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Are backed up:
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a*.dll |
All files that meet the following criteria:
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Are backed up:
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C:\Finance\Agenda\* |
All files in the C:\Finance\Agenda folder. If there are folders in the Agenda folder, then no files in those sub-folders are backed up. |
Are backed up:
Are not backed up, because they are in a sub-folder:
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? (A Specific Number of Characters)
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Example string with wildcard |
What the example string matches |
Examples of files and folders that are backed up |
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access? |
All files and folders that have a name that begins with "access", followed by any 1 character. |
Are backed up:
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access?? |
All files and folders that have a name that begins with "access", followed by any 2 characters. |
Are backed up:
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Class?report |
All folders and files that have a name that:
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Are backed up:
Are not backed up, because "Class" is followed by a number of characters other than 1:
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[n] (A Range of Characters)
Numbers within square brackets are treated as single digits, and a dash between two digits indicates the complete range of numbers between those two digits.
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Example string with wildcard |
What the example string matches |
Examples of files and folders that are backed up |
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agenda[1-5].txt |
Files from agenda1.txt to agenda5.txt. |
Are backed up:
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agenda1[0-9][0-9][0-9].txt |
Files from agenda1000.txt to agenda1999.txt. |
Are backed up:
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agenda[1-3][0-9] |
Files from agenda10 to agenda39. |
Are backed up:
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agenda[10-39] |
Files and folders that have names that begin with agenda1, agenda0, agenda3, or agenda9. |
Are backed up:
Are not backed up:
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[!n] (The Negation of a Range or a Set of Characters)
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Example string with wildcard |
What the example string matches |
Examples of files and folders that are backed up |
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C:\Windows\[!AEIOU]*.docx |
All files that:
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Are backed up:
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<P:e=x> (An Escape Character)
x is an escape character that you define in order to treat a wildcard character, such as square brackets [ ], as a literal character.
To treat wildcard characters, such as square brackets [ ], as literal characters, define any character as an escape character using a <P:e=x> statement, and include the escape character immediately before each wildcard character that you want to treat as a literal character.
You can also use the escape character as a literal character by prefixing it with another escape character.
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Example string with wildcard |
Examples of files and folders that are backed up |
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<P:e='>C:\report'[finance'].docx |
Is backed up:
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<P:e=’>C:\Agenda’[Report’]’’2011’’Financials.docx |
Is backed up:
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<P:e=~>C:\share\folder~[x~]\*** |
Is backed up:
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<P:e=~>C:\DATA\folder~[[3-5]~]\*** |
Are backed up:
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<P:e=~>C:\DATA\folder~[[!3-5]~]\*** |
Are not backed up:
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