{"id":296,"date":"2010-11-08T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:57:56","slug":"search-backed-up-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/search-backed-up-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Backed Up Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bb-bh-Allow-us-to-Introduce-Ourselves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bb-bh-Allow-us-to-Introduce-Ourselves.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bb-bh-Allow-us-to-Introduce-Ourselves-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bb-bh-Allow-us-to-Introduce-Ourselves-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bb-bh-Allow-us-to-Introduce-Ourselves-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bb-bh-Allow-us-to-Introduce-Ourselves-560x319.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">A brand new Mac computer has approximately one million files. When you&#8217;re trying to recover that one document you need after mistakenly clicking delete, it may be a bit daunting to find. With Backblaze, you could always browse through your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-backup\/personal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online backup<\/a> directories to find your file.<\/p>\n<p>However, we&#8217;ve just introduced something to make it a little bit easier: <strong>Search<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>How to Search Backed Up Files<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>1. Visit www.backblaze.com and sign-in.<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>2. Select the computer you wish to restore from.<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>3. Enter the text you want to search.<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>4. Pick the result(s) you want to restore.<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>An Example<\/h2>\n<p>A couple years ago I put together a list of swimming pools that were close to my house and what hours they were open. I was not at my computer and couldn&#8217;t remember where I saved that file. So I signed into Backblaze.com, typed in &#8220;swimmin&#8221; (didn&#8217;t even finish the whole word) and clicked the search icon. I got a list of the three files, clicked the first one, and got my file in a few seconds!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Search_Backed_Up_Files.jpg\" alt=\"Search_Backed_Up_Files\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>A Few Notes<\/h2>\n<p>This search will look at the name of the file only. Since your files are encrypted, we cannot search the contents of the files themselves. All files that match the name will show up. The directory that the file is in is shown just below the filename.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy the new feature!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brand new Mac computer has approximately one million files. When you&#8217;re trying to recover that one document you need after mistakenly clicking delete, it may be a bit daunting to find. With Backblaze, you could always browse through your online backup directories to find your file. However, we&#8217;ve just introduced something to make it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/search-backed-up-files\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Search Backed Up Files<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,121],"tags":[469],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backblaze-tips-tricks","category-backing-up","tag-consumerbackup","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to Search and Find Specific Files in Your Backblaze Backup<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A brand new Mac computer has approximately one million files. 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