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Manage Data and the Information Repository: Data Service Policies and Vault Admin
Wildcard Operators for Vault, Media Name, and Storage Pool
The Buffalo Surveillance Server supports the following wildcards with case sensitive alpha
characters in the Vault, Media Name, and Storage Pool fields:
* for zero or more of any character
? for any single character
* Substitutes for zero or more characters. Can be used in truncation and for multiple
characters. If used in a pathname, it cannot replace a forward slash (/). Use * for all possible
alternative spellings and an unlimited number of characters within a name.
For example, h*ophilia substitutes for all names containing h+<any character or number
of characters>+ophilia, such as haemophilia, hemophilia, or h.123ophelia; behavi*r
substitutes for all names containing behavi+<any character or number of characters>+r,
such as behaviour, behavior, or behavi123.zr; patent* substitutes for only all names
containing patent+<a character or any number of characters>, such as patents,
patentable, patented, patent123, and so on; patent*.jpg substitutes for only all names
containing patent+<a character or any number of characters>+.jpg, such as patents.jpg,
patentable.jpg, patented.jpg, patent123.jpg, etc; *.jpg substitutes for only all names containing
<any character or set of characters>+.jpg.
? Substitutes for any single character and can be combined to denote multiple
characters. If used in a pathname, it cannot replace a forward slash (/). Use ? for specific
alternative spellings. ? substitutes for a single character; ?? substitutes for two characters;
??? substitutes for three characters, and so on. Only names with characters equal to the
number of ? used are processed. For example, cell? substitutes for all names containing cell
+<one additional character>.
For example, cells and cello but not cell. You can use ? within or at the end of a phrase. For
example, .xl? substitutes for only names containing .xl+<a third character>, such as .xls, .
xlr, and so on; wom?n substitutes for only names containing wom+<a third character>+n,
such as woman or women; carbon fib?? substitutes for only names containing carbon fib+
<two characters>, such as carbon fiber or carbon fibre.
In the Vault, Media Name, or Storage Pool fields, substitute the appropriate wildcard
character for any letter or letters. For example, lets say you have four Vaults:
Accounting
Administrative
Development
Sarbanes-Oxley
And, you want to migrate data only to Vaults named "Accounting" and "Actuarial". In the Vault
field, you would enter Ac*, and data will be stored only to Vaults beginning with Ac, regardless
of what comes after c. The same type of scenario would pertain if you wanted to use wildcards
in the Media Name field.
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