Reference Copy - File and Folder Filters

File Name

Filters by file name patterns, such as the following:

• *.doc

• *.*

• data*.*

• "my data"

  The wildcard asterisk character (*) represents any number of characters including zero characters.

  You can enter multiple patterns using AND or OR operators (for example, *.docx AND data*). Mixing ANDs and ORs in a single file name pattern specification is not supported.

  Multiple patterns separated by space characters have an implicit AND relationship.

  An exact file name (that is, a pattern containing no wildcards) requests only an exact match.

  Enter file names that contain spaces by enclosing them in double-quote characters (for example, "my data"). This syntax does not support wildcards (for example, "my data"*.txt is invalid).

  Specify a recursive search by ending the path with the Commvault recursive wildcard pattern, **\*. For example, to search c:\temp for all files and folders recursively, enter c:\temp\**\*.

Modified Date

Filters on file modification date.

• Selects files modified between the Start Time and/or End Time set here.

• The Time Zone is the time zone on the CommServe host when the backup was taken, not the time zone on the client that was backed up.

• Data backed up between the times specified here are browsed and restored.

File Size

Filters on a file size range in KB, MB or GB.

Supports the following operators:

• greater than (>)

• less than (<)

• greater than or equal to (>=)

• less than or equal to (<=)

Contains

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.