{"id":453,"date":"2009-05-23T11:44:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T01:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.wordpress.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2009-05-23T11:44:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T01:44:15","slug":"finding-files-in-your-indices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/05\/23\/finding-files-in-your-indices\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding files in your indices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has had that horror recovery scenario, where a user wants a file recovered, but they can&#8217;t tell you where the file was, or even on what machine it was stored. You can find this information out through a series of mminfo and nsrinfo commands, or, if you&#8217;re in a hurry and you have <a title=\"IDATA Tools\" href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/idata-tools-v4\/\" target=\"_blank\">IDATA Tools<\/a> installed, you can run the <em>find-files<\/em> utility to quickly locate it.<\/p>\n<p>Say for instance I&#8217;ve got a user who lost the file &#8220;Safari4.0BetaLeo.dmg&#8221; somewhere between 6 and 1 week ago on <em>either<\/em> the machine <em>archon<\/em> or <em>aralathan<\/em>. To find where this file may be located in backups, one would run the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>[root@nox nsr]# find-files -c archon,aralathan -S \"6 weeks ago\" -F \"last week\"\u00a0\n-f Safari4.0BetaLeo.dmg\n=== Probe backups ===\n    aralathan\n    archon\n\n=== Search for Safari4.0BetaLeo.dmg ===\n    Check aralathan, 20 savesets to check\n    Check archon, 8 savesets to check\n\n=== Results ===\naralathan:\/ @ 04\/24\/2009 23:45 (384942702)\nVolumes: Staging-01, Staging-01.RO\n    \/Users\/preston\/Desktop\/* Incoming\/Safari4.0BetaLeo.dmg\n\narchon:\/ @ 04\/25\/2009 04:27 (15860863)\nVolumes: Staging-01, Staging-01.RO\n    \/Users\/preston\/Desktop\/DNB\/Safari4.0BetaLeo.dmg<\/pre>\n<p>As I mentioned before, you can run mminfo and nsrinfo queries yourself to do this, but having a tool there just waiting for you to point it in the right direction can be a time-saving boon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has had that horror recovery scenario, where a user wants a file recovered, but they can&#8217;t tell you where&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[451,594,662],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networker","tag-idata-tools","tag-mminfo","tag-nsrinfo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-7j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}