Selecting files for restore

[IanG]

I know that wildcards aren't supported for restore operations, but is there any way to simulate them? Specificaly, I want to restrict searches to certain file types.

Of course real wildcard support would be ideal

Ian G.

[Barry]

try a dot before the extension, so for all jpg's type

.jpg

You cannot put .jpg;.bmp etc, I suppose this could be built in as too could fuzzy matching using * and maybe ?.

Barry

[IanG]

Sorry, my question was very misleading What I want to do is apply a search string to specific file types e.g. find all .xls files with "action" in the filename. Normaly I'd use *action*.xls, but without wildcard support I don't know if this can be done. I suppose ? is heading towards regexes, which would be fun, but far more than I'd ever need.

Ian G.

[Barry]

http://www.aiscl.co.uk/aisbackup_beta.htm

May be used with wild cards in the restore find options.

Barry

[IanG]

Barry, there's something odd here! The link on the download page is to aisbi296.exe but the downloaded file is aisbi269.exe. The installed app says it's 2.2.0.271! I've tried 3 browsers on 2 systems, so I doubt it's a local cache problem.

Ian G.

[Barry]

The foder name was incorrect, our server goes for the closest match - which was wrong - oops.

I just tested the download and it worked okay.

http://www.aiscl.co.uk/aisbackup_beta.htm

Barry

[IanG]

Much better! The wildcarding works perfectly - thanks!

Ian G.

[Barry]

A bit slow though: 20 seconds to search 1.5 million files on this computer!

Barry

[IanG]

I can live with it - for now

Ian G.