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Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2021-06-07

Product(s): NetBackup (9.1)

Select Files or Directories > Search options

This view is shown by default when you select Manage > Restore and then click the Restore Files and Directories link. The Select Files or Directories > Search view lets you perform simple or advanced search operations based on the timeframe and search options that you select. When you select a specific timeframe, only the backups that occurred in the selected timeframe are searched. By default, the files or directories that are backed up over the last one month are searched.

The following search options are displayed when you select Select Files or Directories > Search:

File or Directory name

Enter the name of the file or directory that you want to search for. This is a mandatory field.

For UNIX clients, the search pattern may optionally begin with a / to indicate that the matching should start at the root directory.

A pattern may optionally end with a / for UNIX clients or \ for Windows clients to indicate that only directory matches are returned.

You can search by the following methods:

Enter a full path name.
OpsCenter searches for the specific path and file in the selected clients, timeframe, and as per any advanced search criteria that you entered. Use forward slash (/) as the path delimiter for UNIX and back slash (\) as the path delimiter for Windows.
Enter a specific file or directory name.
OpsCenter searches for the specific file or directory (folder) in the selected clients, timeframe, and as per any advanced search criteria that you entered..
Add a * or a ? wildcard to the entry.
If you do not know the exact directory (folder) or file name, add one of these wildcards to the string. This is valid for both Windows and UNIX clients.
Examples:
- Enter *.doc to view the files that end with that suffix.
- Enter ca?.doc to view all the files that have one character after ca and a .doc extension.
- Enter etc/hos* to view files named hos* immediately inside directory etc.
  Enter C:\backup* to view files named backup* immediately inside C:.
- Enter /etc/hos* to view files named hos* immediately inside directory etc. The etc directory must be a first level directory.
  Enter trace\backup* to view files immediately inside directory named trace.
- Enter etc//hos* to view files named hos* immediately inside etc or any subdirectory of etc.
  Enter C:\\backup* to view files named backup* immediately inside C: or any subdirectory of C:.

Note:

You cannot search by only typing * in the text box. This is not supported.

In addition, you cannot search by using a pattern like /path/* on UNIX or path\* on Windows. To find related results, you can search using path* or path.

Search within Clients

In this field, you can specify the set of clients whose backup information you want to search. You can search multiple clients that are associated with one or more views or primary servers at a given time.

Select one or more clients that are associated with one primary server. A table appears that provides details like client name, the primary server that it is associated with and a link to remove the client. To add the clients that are associated with a different view or primary server, select the view, primary server, and then type in or browse for the clients.

View

Select a view from the View drop-down list.

Only the following views are displayed in the View drop-down list:

Views that you have access to
Client type or Primary Server type views

If you select a view of type Primary Server, all NetBackup primary servers that are added to the view are displayed in the Primary Server drop-down list. If you select a client-type view, the Primary Server drop-down list is disabled.

Primary Server

Select a primary server from the Primary Server drop-down list. All NetBackup primary servers that are a part of the selected view are displayed.

Note:

NetBackup primary servers are displayed in the Primary Server drop-down list. Even if you have older primary servers in the selected view, those primary servers do not appear in the Primary Server drop-down list.

The Primary Server drop-down list is disabled in the following scenario:

If you select a client-type view from the View drop-down list
If you have access to client-type views only

To restore backed up files and directories (folders) on a client, first ensure that the primary server that is associated with the client is added to the OpsCenter console.

Client

Specify the clients whose backup information you want to search. If you remember the client name, type the client name in the Client text box. Once you start typing the client name like a1, the protected clients that begin with these characters automatically appear beneath the drop-down list (auto-complete field). Select the client name when it appears.

As you select the clients that you want to search, a table appears beneath that provides details like client name that you selected for search, the primary server that it is associated with and a link to remove the client. Click Remove if you want to remove the specific client.

Note:

Only those clients on which files and directories are backed up (or protected clients) are displayed when you type in a client name or browse for a client. Clients that do not have any backups are not displayed.

Note:

In addition, only those clients are displayed for which the user has been granted access through a view.

If you do not remember any client names or simply want to browse through the clients, click the Browse and select client link and select a list of protected clients that are associated with a primary server or a client-type view.

See Browse Client dialog box.

Note:

The time to display search results may increase with the number of selected clients.

Advanced Search

You can also search on the basis of more advanced parameters in addition to the simple search parameters. Click Advanced Search if you want to search using additional parameters like policy type, backup type, file size, policy name etc. These are optional parameters.

You are presented with the following options for an advanced search operation:

Policy Name
Enter a policy name to view the backups that are associated with the specific policy.
Policy type
By selecting the policy type, you can view the backups that are associated with the selected policy type. For restoring files and directories, policy types like FlashBackup, FlashBackup - Windows, MS-Windows, NDMP, Standard, Hyper-V, and VMware are supported.
You can select only one policy type from the drop-down list.
Policy associated keywords
By specifying the policy associated keyword, you can view the backups that are associated with the specific keyword.
Backup type
By selecting the Backup type, you can view the backups that are associated with the selected backup type. You can select multiple backup types.
Select File Extensions
You can select one or more file extensions that you want to view from the Select file extensions drop-down list. The following file extensions are listed:
- txt
- doc
- docx
- pdf
- xls
- xlsx
- ppt
- pptx
If a file extension is not listed, then you can type it under the Specify extension option
Once you select or specify the file extensions, click Add. The selected file extensions are displayed in the list box on the right-hand side.
Case-insensitive search
This option is checked by default. You can uncheck the case-insensitive search option to make your search case-sensitive.
The case-sensitive search applies to file or directory name and file extensions only.
File/Directory modification time
With this option you can search based on when the file or directory was last modified. The default selection is Any.
In addition to other options, you can also specify an absolute timeframe by selecting Specify date and time range.and select From and To timeframes.

Note:

A command named nbfindfile has been added that lets you search files or directories based on simple search criteria. This command can be executed from the NetBackup primary server (and not the OpsCenter Server).

See nbfindfile.