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Chapter 5: Selecting Files and Versions 75
This filter instructs Data Protector Express to only restore files which have a delete date that matches the
criteria you have set. Note that if a file has not been deleted from the volume, it will be excluded by this
filter and thus will not be selected for restoring.
You can easily select every file deleted for restoring by first marking the selection box of the volume and
selecting the latest version. This will cause all of the files to be selected initially. Then, click on the
Browse button next to the Delete range field and then select On or before from the Range type list box.
Next select a random future date, for example, February 6, 2106. Data Protector Express will exclude all
of the files that have not been deleted from the set of files to be restored. When you return to the
Selection page, only those files that have been deleted will be checked.
On the other hand, you can also not restore files that have been deleted. In this case, set the Delete range
filter to On or before some random early date, such as January 1, 1980. Any file that has been deleted
will be filtered out by this filter, so that no deleted files will be restored. This can be useful if you don’t
want to unnecessarily restore files that were properly deleted in the first place.
Access Range
Each time a file is read, whether or not it is modified, its access date is updated. You can use this
information to select files for restoring. For example, you might want to restore only those files which
have been accessed (opened or read) in the past two months. Alternatively, you could restore only those
files which have
not
been accessed in the past two months.
To select files that have specific access dates, click on the Browse button next to the Access range field.
In the
Date Range
window that appears, select the appropriate range type and the starting and ending
dates and times.
Size Range
This filter lets you select files to restore according to their sizes. You might want to select only smaller
files, larger files or files between two sizes.
To specify a filter that sorts files according to their sizes, click on the
Browse
button next to the
Size
range
field and then select the appropriate criteria in the
Size Range
window that appears.
Version Range
Each time Data Protector Express backs up a file, it creates a new
version
of that file. For example, a file
named Expense Account Reporting Form may have been backed up several times during the previous
months and years. Typically, each version of the file is stored on the backup media of a different job. Data
Protector Express tracks each version of a file separately in its catalog.