Searching in indexed backup files
The search in indexed backup files can be reached via the context menu of a profile ("Search in backup file") in the Control Center under "Logs/Jobs per profile". As a result of the search, only the jobs that meet the search conditions are then displayed in the same place.
The following requirements/restrictions apply:
The indexing of backup files has been activated in the profile.
The indexing can only take place if option "multipleBackupSubDirs" in the configuration file ./etc/startup.xml is set to "true". See section Retention periods of backup files, logs, crashed jobs.
An indexing can only take place for non-binary files, not for Excel or PDF files.
The indexing of the backups takes place in the background and may take a while with larger amounts of data. You can check if the indexing is still running in the Control Center under "System/Threads" (thread "BackupFileIndexer").
Settings
(1) Enter your search term here: The search term to be used. See the following sections.
(2) Max. hits: Restriction of the search result (so the maximal number of jobs).
Example
Assume the following two backup files of two different jobs of the profile.
BAYERN80999 München80804 München-Schwabing85356 München-Airport82343 Pöcking82319 Starnberg82327 Tutzing93059 RegensburgHESSEN60435 Frankfurt60549 Frankfurt-Airport63679 Schotten35041 MarburgNow we formulate the complete search term.
8* AND *Airport*This searches for jobs of the profile whose backup file contains a line whose postal code begins with "8" and in which the string "Airport" occurs. This would therefore only apply to the job with the first backup file. Important note: The individual search terms are not searched as substrings. The search term "Airport" alone would therefore not return a hit!
More search options
The search uses the Lucene Query Syntax. Below you will find a few of the available options.
Free-standing strings in the whole text are found, but not substrings. The search term München would be found in the first file, but the search term Münch would not be found. In XML files, values within tags are found. So if a file had the line <tag>arn</tag>, the search term arn would find it.
Regular expressions are also allowed in the search. For this, the prefix / and the suffix / must be used. Example: The search term /.*arn.*/ contains the regular expression .*arn.* and would find the first backup file with the word Starnberg.
The Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT are available.
You can use the placeholders * (any number of any character) and ? (one arbitrary character), but not as the first character of the search term.
A multi-word string must be enclosed in double quotes, e.g. "80999 München"
A search for source data that must include Airport and may not include München is +Airport NOT München
A restriction to a period can be specified with creationtime:[<yyyyMMddHHmm> TO <yyyyMMddHHmm>], so creationtime:[20140924 TO 20140925] AND ("80999 München" OR Starnberg) for the search above if we only want job from 24.09.2014. Note: There must be a difference of at least one day between the two times. Note: Upper and lower case are not considered, but keywords must be capitalised.