HP-UX File System Agent: Browse and Restore

File Name

You can filter files by name patterns. For example, each asterisk (*) represents zero, one or many characters:

• *.doc

• *.*

• data*.*

  You can enter multiple keywords by separating them with "AND" or "OR" logical operators, in all capital letters. For example:

• *.docx AND data*

• *.txt OR *.xlsx

• *.docx data*

• Windows* OR Name*

  Notes:

• Patterns separated by spaces without a logical operator have an implied "AND" relationship.

• While you can use more than one operator, you cannot combine "AND" and "OR" logical operators.

  You can enter a keyword phrase that contain spaces, but you must enclose the keyword phrase in double quotation marks ("). For example, to find a file named my data, enter:

• "my data"

  Note: This form of keyword entry does not support wild cards.

Modified Date

You can filter files based on modification date. Options include:

• Today

• Yesterday

• This Week

• This Month

• This Year

  All folders that satisfy this filter are shown.

File Size

This can be used to filter files based on a size range in KB, MB or GB. Comparison options provided are:

• greater than

• less than

• greater than or equal to

• less than or equal to

Stubbed Objects

Use this to filter stubbed files that were backed up.

Contains

This filters file content against the words you enter. The results differ with different combinations of backup and content indexing jobs that ran on the client, as follows:

• This filter retrieves more-precise results when Content Indexing is enabled, and at least one Content Indexing job has been run after the last backup job.

• When Content Indexing is enabled, and other filters are used along with this filter, the results are retrieved from the combination of what got backed up and content indexed.

• If Content Indexing is not enabled, the reference copy job waits for Content Indexing to run on the source subclient. If data is pushed to multiple Content Indexing servers, data from the most-recent Content Indexing server is processed.

  Two or more filter words or phrases can be combined by placing "AND" or "OR" logical operators between the words. You cannot combine "AND" and "OR" logical operators.

*

Any number of characters. This wildcard is used in the following scenarios:

• Filter all files of a specific extension

• Filter all files under a specific directory

• Filter all files of a specific extension where the file name starts with a specific pattern.

• *.doc filters all files with the extension .doc, for example "status.doc" and "mission.doc," on all partitions on the client computer.

  /Test/*.doc filters all .doc files only in the /Test directory.

• a*.so filters all files with the extension .so, for example "alsvc.so" and "advdcc.so" on the client computer which have the name beginning with "a".

• /Finance/Test/* filters all the files and directories in the "Test" directory under the "Finance" directory on the / partition. Any sub-directories under the Test directory are not get backed up.

?

Any one character.

• This wildcard can be used in the following scenario:

• All files (or directories) for which any one character in the file name or the directory name is variable.

• /access? filters any directory or file on the machine for which the name begins with- "access" followed by any one character such as "access1" or "access5". However, "access12" or "access15" are not backed up because the last two characters in the name are variable.

• /Class/report? filters any directory or file under the /Class directory where the character in place of the question mark (?) is variable. For example: "/Class/report1" and "/Class/report2" are backed up. However, "/Class/report15" is not backed up.

[]

Set or range of characters.

• /[a-m]*.doc filters any file with .doc extension on the / partition for which the name begins with the letters "a" through "m”.

• /[AEIOU]*.doc filters any file name that ends with .doc and begins with the letters A, E, I, O, or U.

• /Finance/report[1-47-9] filters files report1, report2, report4, report7, report8, report9 under the Finance directory.

• /Department-[A-CS] filters files Department-A, Department-B, Department-C, and Department-S.

[!]

The negation of a set or range of characters. You can use the wildcard in the following scenario: filter all files in a directory except the files for which the name starts with any character from the specified set or range of characters.

/root/[!AEIOU]*.doc filters all .doc files in the /root directory that start with a letter other than A, E, I, O, or U.

**

Matches any directory level.

• /**/move.cpp filters the file named move.cpp located at any directory level. For example: /root/newapp/move.cpp/opt/kde3/src/move.cpp.

• /etc/** filters all directories, sub-directories, and files under the /etc directory.

***

Matches any directory level, including the parent directory

• /etc/*** filters all directories, sub-directories, and files under the /etc directory, and the /etc directory itself.

• To filter all directories, sub-directories, and files under the /etc directory, specifying /etc/*** instead of /etc/** improves performance because /etc/*** filters the /etc directory itself. This is especially useful if you have a large subset of the file system under the /etc directory.