Performing a simple or advanced search
To restore a specific file or directory, you may first need to know the location of the file or directory. You can either perform a simple or advanced search. For performing a simple search, you must select the timeframe, enter a file or directory name (full, partial, or wildcard) or path along with the client name. By default, timeframe of the last one month is selected. This means that files or directories that were backed up over the last one month are searched by default.
While performing an advanced search, you can specify additional optional parameters like policy name, policy or backup type etc. in addition to the simple search parameters.
Use the following procedure to search files and directories for restore.
To search and select files and directories for restore
- In the OpsCenter console, click Manage > Restore.
- Click Restore Files and Directories under Files and Directories.
- The contents of the Select files or directories > Search tab are displayed by default. From this view, you can search and select the files and directories that you want to restore. You can either perform a simple search or an advanced search.
Instead of searching and selecting files, you can also browse and select the backed up files and directories on a client for restore.
- Select a timeframe that you want to search. The default timeframe that is selected is Month.
- In the Search files and directories based on name, path, wildcards etc. section, enter the following parameters. To perform a simple search operation, enter all the details in Search files and directories based on name, path, wildcards etc. section.
See Select Files or Directories > Search options.
You can select multiple clients from one or more views or primary servers to be searched at a given time. To search for clients from multiple views or primary servers, you must enter details in the Search within Clients section for each view or primary server. For example, to search for clients from two primary servers, select the first primary server and then select clients for the first primary server. Similarly, complete the Search within Clients section for the second primary server. You can use the same procedure to add clients from different views.
The clients that you selected for search are displayed in a table in this section. The table displays the following details:
Client Name
This column displays the client name that is searched.
Primary Server
This column displays the primary server that is associated with the specific client.
Remove
Click Remove if you do not want the backup information of the specific client to be searched.
- To perform an advanced search, you can also specify advanced search criteria in addition to the simple search criteria. The Advanced Search criteria are optional.
- Click Search.
It may take some time for OpsCenter to display the search results. The time to display the search results may increase with the number of selected clients.
OpsCenter highlights the search results at the bottom of the pane in a table. The most recent 500 results can be shown in the table.
The table lists the following default columns that are displayed:
File/Directory Name
Names of the files and directories that are backed up as per the search criteria are displayed. The directory (folder) name may have a + sign next to it. This indicates that the directory has files or sub-directories. You can choose if you want to restore the whole directory or specific files from the directory.
If you want to restore the selected files and directories now, click Restore now. To restore the selected files and directories later, click Add to Restore Cart.
File/Directory Path
Current location of files and directories is displayed.
Backup History
This link shows the backup timeline window for a specific file or directory.
A file or directory may have been backed up multiple times in the past. You may want to restore a previous copy.
In addition, you may have multiple copies for a specific backup. The primary copy is selected by default. You may want to restore a copy other than the primary copy.
Click the link if you want to to restore a previous backup and also specify a copy other than the primary copy.
Backup Time
This is the most recent date and time when the file was last backed up.
Modified Time
Date and time when the backup was last modified.
Client
Name of the client on which the backup exists.
Size
Size of the backed up file or directory (folder) in bytes (B).
The columns that can be added to the table are the following:
Primary Server
Last Accessed Time
Backup ID
The filter button on top of search results table allows you to filter out the search results and display only the search results matching a criteria. The result is a filtered subset of the last search result from the OpsCenter database.
See Creating, applying, editing, and removing custom view filters.
Whenever you apply a filter on the search results, you see the following message on top of the search results table.
Search has been completed successfully. Filter is currently applied. Click here to remove filter.
You can click the link to clear the filter and view all search results.
You can also customize the search results table to allow standard table customizations like sort order, page size, columns displayed and the order in which columns are displayed. Click Change Table Settings icon on top of search result to access table customizations page.
See About using tables.
- Select one or more files or directories. Click Restore now to restore the files or directories now.
Click Add to Restore Cart if you want to add the selected files and directories to the Restore Cart and restore at a later time.
See Restore Cart.
Click Preview Media to view the media required for the restore operation and to determine the availability of the required media. This helps you to know if the tape required for restore is in the library or not. This option applies only for tape backups. If the selected backups are on a disk, this option is not applicable.
The Preview Media dialog box contains details like Media ID, Volume Group, and whether the media is in the library.
- In the Restore Options panel, select the restore options for each individual client.
Click Next.
- In the Summary panel, click Restore to restore all the files or directories.
See Summary panel.