Selecting files for restore

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IanG
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Selecting files for restore

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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 :wink:

Ian G.
Barry
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Search for files of type

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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 ?.

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IanG
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Post by IanG »

Sorry, my question was very misleading :oops: 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.

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Barry
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Wild thing

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

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

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IanG
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The Hendrix version

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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.

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Barry
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Download problem

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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

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IanG
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Post by IanG »

Much better! The wildcarding works perfectly - thanks!

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Barry
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Fuzzy matching

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

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IanG
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Post by IanG »

I can live with it - for now :wink:

Ian G.
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