[Box Backup] Re:Searching with BoxBackup for files

[Alexandre Mallais]

It would really be a nice feature to be able to search the backup. We 
backup more than 1 TB of data, and it is really a pain in the ass 
looking one file. Would it be difficult to implement (I guess not?)?

Charles Burrell wrote:
> Searching your BBstore would be a powerful utility. To be honest, the 
> lack of searching as well as a few other centralized server side 
> utilities limit the use of Box Backup in high volume client 
> environments. Matt, for now perhaps you could try to string together 
> several commands and redirect the output of a complete file listing to 
> a text file then grep that file.
>
> Good luck
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>     From: Matt Brown <matt@mbrown.co.uk <mailto:matt@mbrown.co.uk>>
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>     Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:50:29 +0100
>     Subject: [Box Backup] Searching with BoxBackup for files
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>     Hi,
>
>     I dont think this is possible, and maybe not something that everyone
>     would require (possible feature request).
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>     Is it possible to find a file or deleted file within a store of a
>     client. I have a situation today where the user on the network knows
>     he had a file called keys.doc, however unsure which directory it
>     resided in. Chances are as we back up the entire /home partition we do
>     have a copy in BB on the BB Store as a deleted file.
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>     How do I go about finding it, without going through every directory
>     tree ??
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>     Guess what I am looking for is a find or grep kind of function :)
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>     Matt Brown
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