Selecting Deleted Files For Restoring; Selecting Versions From A Specific Job; Selecting Versions From Specific Media - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User's Manual & Technical Reference

Selecting files not previously backed up
Set the filter to At most 0.
Suppose you want to run a backup job that only selects files that have not been backed up previously.
You can use the Version Range filter to "filter out" any files that have been previously backed up.
Each time Data Protector Express backs up a file, it creates a new version of that file. If a file has not
been backed up, Data Protector Express has no versions recorded in the catalog for that file.
To select only files that have not been previously backed up, begin by clicking the Selection Filters button
on the tool bar of the Selection page. The Selection Filters dialog box will appear.
Click the Browse button next to the field. Set the Range Type to At most and then set the Maximum
versions field to "0". Data Protector Express will only select those files with no versions.
NOTE:
This method does not ensure that you have the latest version of every file. Having a version of a file does
not ensure that the version you have reflects the latest changes to the file. It may have been modified after
the last time you backed it up and so your latest version may not match the file's current form.
Selecting deleted files for restoring
Set the Delete range filter to On or before some random future date.
When a file has been deleted from a file or application server or PC desktop and a version of that file
exists on valid media, Data Protector Express marks that file in its catalog as having been deleted and
assigns it a delete date. Additionally, these files appear with a special icon in the object detail area
of the Selection page.
Selecting versions from a specific job
Select the appropriate version date for a container object.
When a file is backed up, Data Protector Express creates a version. Each version of a file has a unique
version date and every file backed up during the same job has the same version date. (You can view this
information for all of the available versions in the Versions dialog box.)
Remember that when you specify the version date for a container, such as a volume or folder, objects in
that container are only selected when they have the same version date.
If you want to select only those files backed up during a particular job, begin by checking a container
high in the tree hierarchy, such as the machine or network icon. This will cause all of the files below
this object to be initially selected. Then open the Versions dialog box by clicking on the Select Version
button. Select the appropriate date and time version for the job. Now only those files with a matching
version date will be selected.
Selecting versions from specific media
Add the media to the Media filter.
Suppose you want to restore only those files that appear on specific media or want only to verify files
from specific media. You can use the Media filter on the Selection Filters dialog box to only select files
that have valid versions on the media you specify.
To do so, open the Selection Filters dialog box by clicking on the Selection Filters button on the tool bar
of the Selection page of the job. Then click the Add button to open the Browse dialog box. When you
add media to the Media field, Data Protector Express checks to see if the file selected has a valid version
on that Media. If so, that file is included in the job. (If you add multiple media to the Media field, only
files with versions on all the selected media will be included in the job.)
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