V11 Enterprise Manager: searching indexed files in a time frame

[kaithost]

Hi,

I am doing veeam workshops for customers for some years now. a big plus for the EM was the search functionality of indexed backups.
Until V11 this was possible: search for a file in a time frame of backups and get all hits including the modification time of the file in a backup.
Purpose: user has requested a restore for a former version and he doesn't remember when he changed it.
Solution: use time frame search and pin point the file by modification time. easy and fast.
Not optimal: all hits including identical modification time "version" were shown.

V11 only shows the latest modification time "version" of the file when doing time frame search. now the above is no longer possible.

V11 should act like this: show unique modification time "versions" of a file within the time frame, not just the latest. this would be an improvement.
Showing only the latest pretty much makes time frame search useless.

I know that EM search is not so widely used, but it is and was a part of my workshop for customers and they all like this feature (at least in the workshop)

Case # 05051171

Thoughts on this?


Regards
Kai

[HannesK]

Hello,
I just tried it out in V10 and the result is exactly the same like in V11 for me: it only shows the latest version of a file.

Which version did you use before?

Thanks,
Hannes

PS: it sounds like a valid feature request to me.

[kaithost]

Hi Hannes,

I started showing this years ago, at least from V9 on.
Not sure if a V10 customer wanted to use EM. So it may be that V10 installations passed this feature for my workshops.

But no matter which version ... the funktionality only makes sense with the requested search results, agreed?
Why else should one search within a time frame for specific files if not to get all unique "versions" of the file over a time frame?
The data is there in the index. just the search algorithm has to spit out the unique results of the search ...

Best regards
Kai

[HannesK]

Hello,
sure, that functionality makes sense. I will check out whether it's a bug or a feature request and come back on this.

Best regards,
Hannes

[HannesK]

Hello,
I got confirmation that the behavior is a known issue (#266033).

I also saw that I made a mistake in testing it with V10.

We are planning to fix that, but I don't have a timeline on that.

Best regards,
Hannes