Automatic Detection of Regular Expressions

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One of the advanced options available during a restore operation is the ability to specify a source path. Certain iDataAgents also allow you to choose to detect or ignore regular expressions (wildcard characters) in the specified source path. This allows you to restore files and folders which contain regular expressions in their name (e.g., c:\[test]). This is similar in concept to the use of wildcards in filters, and works according to these guidelines:

• No-Browse Restore - option is on by default (detect supported regular expressions in specified source path as wildcards); this option can be changed for this type of restore and is the only way to automatically detect regular expressions during restore.
• Supported Regular Expressions are:
  • * = any number of characters

    doc* will find any directory or file name that begins with "doc" (e.g., document, documentation)

  • ** = any number of characters across any number of path levels

    c:\**\move will find the directory or file named move located at any level under the c: drive (e.g., c:\info\com\move)

  • ? = any one character

    access? will find any directory or file name that begins with "access" followed by any one character (e.g., access1, access5)

  • [] = any range of characters

    [ei]nsure will find any directory or file name that ends with "nsure" and begins either "e" or "i". (e.g., ensure, insure)

    [a-z]nsure will find any directory or file name that ends with "nsure" and begins with any letter from "a" though "z". (e.g., ansure, bnsure, cnsure, etc.)

    ![a] or ^[a] will exclude any directory or file name that begins with "a". (e.g., applications)