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Data Protector Express

User's Guide and Technical Reference

Selecting files with filters

Selection filters let you identify specific volumes, folders and files to exclude from the verify job. Click
the

Selection Filters

button on the toolbar. Then specify the filter criteria for the verify job.

NOTE:

The selection filters you specify are applied to all of the volumes, folders and files that have been

marked for verify.

You cannot apply different filters to different folders or volumes in the same job.

How selection filters work

By default, Data Protector Express verifies all volumes, folders and files that have been marked for
verification. Selection filters let you identify specific criteria for excluding one or more of these marked
objects. Data Protector Express applies these filter criteria at runtime, in effect unmarking any objects that
do not fit the criteria.

For example, suppose you want to exclude all files that were created before 2002. Access the

Date Range

window for the

Create range

field. Select

On or after

for the

Range type

. Enter

1-Jan-2002

for the

Starting date

. When you run the job, Data Protector Express temporarily deselects all files with a

creation date before 2002. They will be excluded from the verify.

You can change the filter criteria at any time. You can also mark or unmark objects before running the
job. Data Protector Express does not apply the filter criteria to any marked object until it runs the job.

NOTE:

You cannot use selection filters to add unmarked objects to the verify set. Selection filters are only

used to exclude marked objects from the verify set.

Selecting Versions of Files for Verify Jobs

Each time you mark a selection box of a file or folder for verifying, Data Protector Express automatically
selects the latest version. If you want to specify a different version, use the

Versions of…

window to

select which version of the file you wish to verify.

You can also specify a particular version of a file or folder by highlighting it in the tree view or object
detail areas and then clicking the

Select Version

button on the toolbar. Data Protector Express will show

you the

Versions of…

window with a list of the available versions for that file.

Be certain to specify carefully which version of a file you wish to verify. A single Data Protector Express
verify job can verify files backed up over a period of months or years on media created by many different
backup jobs. You can easily verify all of the latest versions of the files by selecting the latest version in
the

Versions of…

window. However, if you want versions of files that were created on different dates,

you must select each version of each file individually.

Note that you cannot verify multiple versions of the same file in a single verify job. If you want to verify
more than one version of a file, you must create and run a separate job for each version.

To select versions of files for verify jobs

1. Open the property page of the verify job and click on the

Selection

page.

2. Check the selection boxes next to the files, folders or other containers you wish to include in the job.

3. To select a specific version of the objects you selected, highlight the folder or file and click the

Select

Version

button. In the

Versions of…

window that appears, select the appropriate date of the version