NetVault 12.3 - Administration Guide

Searching for files in savesets

The Search option on the Create Restore Job — Choose Saveset page allows you to find specific files or data items without opening any savesets or browsing through their contents. You can use filenames or regular expressions to find the data items that you want to restore.

To configure or enable the catalog search, click the bulb icon shown near Search button on the Create Restore Job — Choose Saveset page.

To search for data items in savesets:

On the Create Restore Job — Choose Saveset page, click Search.

In the Search for files in savesets dialog box, configure the following options:

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Search String: Type the search string.

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Regular expression search: To use POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface for Unix) regular expressions in the Search String box, select this check box.

The catalog search supports the regular expression syntax used by Elasticsearch. For more information, see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-regexp-query.html

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Use legacy search method: This check box is displayed if both cataloged and non-cataloged savesets are included in the search.

If only non-cataloged savesets are included in the search (or if “Use legacy search method” option is selected), the legacy search is used.

If only cataloged savesets are included in the search (or if “Use legacy search method” option is not selected), the catalog search is used.

To search the data items in one or more specific savesets, select the desired saveset (s) and click Search. If you do not select any saveset, then all savesets are included in the search. On the Search Results page, you can view the specified files or data items. The following search results page is displayed when catalog search is configured and enabled on your NetVault Backup system.

Figure 19. Search Results with catalog search enabled

The following information about the search results is displayed:

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Filter icon: To filter the records displayed in the search results table, click this icon. For more information on filter options, see Table 14.

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‘Search filters’ drawer is displayed on the right- side of the page. Set the following filter options and click Apply.

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To clear the filter settings, click Clear.

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To edit the applied filters, clear the filter settings, and then apply new filter settings.

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To close the ‘Search filters’ drawer without editing or setting the filter options, click Cancel.

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The total number of search results and number of records shown on the page may not be equal because, the search results shows the number of occurrences however, the rows shows the number of non-identical items found. If copies of an item are found, then the row displays the copy icon. To view the copies of the files and select for restore, click the copy icon. Copies are defined as items with identical machine, path, name, size, and modified time.

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Expand icon: To expand all result items, click the expand icon shown on top of the results table.

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Collapse icon: To collapse all result items, click the collapse icon shown on top of the results table.

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Settings icon: To set the number of search results per page, click the settings icon. ‘Settings’ drawer is displayed on the right- side of the page. Type or select the value and click OK. By default, the page displays 25 records. You can view a minimum 10 and maximum 100 records on the Search Results page.

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New Search button: To search the data items in the selected saveset, click New Search. In the Search for files in savesets dialog box, configure the following options and click Search:

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Search String: Type the search string.

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Regular expression search: To use POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface for Unix) regular expressions in the Search String box, select this check box.

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To expand an item and view the file metadata, such as plug-in, job name, job ID, saveset ID, and backup date and time, click the corresponding plus icon.

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To view the media information for a saveset, click the corresponding context- menu icon and then click ‘show media list for the saveset’. Status (online or offline) of the storage media and other information is displayed in the dialog box. To close the dialog box, click Close.

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Copy icon is displayed if the corresponding result is present in multiple savesets.

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Filename

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Filepath

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Filesize

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Last modified date and time

Select the items you want to restore. You can only restore items from one saveset. Click Restore selected items.

Complete Step 5 through Step 11 in the section Creating restore jobs.

Viewing media list

The Media List option on the Create Restore Job — Choose Saveset page lets you view information about the media items used to store a backup. You can view details about the data segments and index segments for a backup.

To view the media details for a saveset:

On the Create Restore Job — Choose Saveset page, select the applicable saveset.

In the Saveset Information area, click Media List.

In the dialog box that appears, you can view the following details:

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Backup size: This area shows the total size of the saveset in number of bytes

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Data segment table: This table shows information about the media items that contain the data segments. You can view the following details: media label, media group label, stream ID, starting byte number, ending byte number, and media location

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Index segment table: This table shows information about the media items that contain the index segments. You can view the media label and media location.

Click Close to close the dialog box.

Creating Source Sets for restore jobs

A Source Set is used to specify source device options. You can create Source Sets for restore jobs from the Create Restore Job page.

To create a Source Set:

Start the restore job wizard, and click Create New next to the Source Storage list.

On the Create Restore Source Set page, click Device Selection, and configure the following settings.

Table 56. Device Selection options for Restore Source Set
Option	Description
Any Device	This option is selected by default. If you do not specify a device type, NetVault Backup uses any suitable device for a job.
Specify Device	To use particular devices for a job, select this option. In the associated box, clear the check marks for the devices that you do not want to use. When you remove a library, the associated drives are automatically removed.
Local Drives Only	To use only devices that are locally attached to the target client, select this check box. NOTE: NetVault SmartDisk is considered a network-attached device or a non-local device.