Finding archived files by filename

[donatleb]

Is anyone aware of a way to find files stored using nwarchive by filename??

We manually archive work and put the job reference in the annotation, however, from time to time a user will mistakenly drag one job folder into another. When the job is archived we have no way to find it using the interface. I have tried using nsrinfo but it seems to only list those files backed up through the backup application.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[605]

This depends on how to use NW. Since a while you can archive files with NW/Windows and maintain the file index info as well. Since NW 7 this can also be done fo UNIX/Linux clients.

But if you have not written the files to the index, you can of course not find them with nsrinfo.

The easiest way is to recover the archived save set to a temp location and pick your files from there.

 

[donatleb]

605, Thanks for your post, Unfortunately we are running version 6.1.3 due to integration with a 3rd party application.

Any other ideas out there???

Thanks,

Don

 

[605]

As i said, it at least works with Windows.

 

[donatleb]

Sorry, forgot to mention, we are running on UNIX.

Thanks,

D

 

[605]

I almost forgot this:

Due to the fact that NW saves the filenames in the backup data stream, you can recover a fraction or a single file using the "automatic recovery":

1. Find out the SSID of the archived save set
2. Run
recover -S ssid -a pathname or
recover -S ssid -a path_and_filename
- You must at leat know the directory name
- Be careful, the name is case sensitive (which of course is normal for UNIX)