How to find files in backups with wildcards?

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This is how it works by design. Duplicati store every single file including its full absolute path. One of the advantages is that search queries using simple wildcards are a bit more flexible:

  • “*_DSC4230*.tif” will find all.TIF files containing _DSC4230, but also files that have this character sequence in one of its parent’s folder, like C:\Pictures\Subfolder_DSC42301234\MyPicture.tif.
  • “C:\Pictures*_DSC4230.tif” will find all .TIF files named DSC4230 that are located in one of the subfolders of C:\Pictures.
  • “*\Holiday2019\????_DSC4230.tif” will find all filenames ending with _DSC4230 beginning with 4 random characters, in a folder named Holiday2019.

For even more flexibility, use a regular expression. Regex has a slightly higher learning curve, but is much more powerful. See this article for more information about the syntax.

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