Restore Point Retention
The Restore Point Retention pane allows a user to search for restore points in the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog by Backup job name, view their creation and expiration dates, and override the assigned retention.
To search for and expire a restore point:
- From the navigation menu, click Manage Protection > IBM Spectrum Protect Plus > Restore Point Retention.
- Enter a search string to search for a restore point by name, then click Search
. See Search Guidelines.
- Optionally, use filters to fine-tune your search across job types (Hypervisor Backup, Application Backup, and Catalog Backup) and date range in which the associated backup job started. Click Search
to perform the search with selected filters.
- From the Actions menu associated with the restore point you want to expire, select Expire. A confirmation dialog displays.
- Click Yes. The data is expired from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus during the next run of the Maintenance job. See Maintenance Job.
- Enter a character string to find objects with a name that exactly matches the character string. Searching for the term string.txt will return the exact match, string.txt.
- Apply wildcards as needed.
- Regular Expression search entries are supported. For more information see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/scripting/search-text-with-regular-expressions.
A wildcard is a character that you can substitute for zero or more unspecified characters when searching text. Position wildcards at the beginning, middle, or end of a string, and combine them within a string.
- Match a character string with an asterisk, which represents a variable string of zero or more characters:
- string* searches for terms like string, strings, or stringency
- str*ing searches for terms like string, straying, or straightening
- *string searches for terms like string or shoestring
- Match a single character with a question mark:
- string? searches for terms like strings, stringy, or string1
- st??ring searches for terms like starring or steering
- ???string searches for terms like hamstring or bowstring
You can use multiple asterisk wildcards in a single text string, though this might considerably slow down a large search.
The search functionality supports special characters, which must be escaped with a \ before the character. The following special characters are supported: + - & | ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \
To search for a file named string[2].txt, enter the following: string\[2\].txt.
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