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title: "Viewing Restore Points in Backup"
description: "You can view information about restore points in the backup. You can also list files contained in a restore point. To view information about restore points in the backup, you can use one of the following commands: or where: <backup_id> — ID of the..."
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# Viewing Restore Points in Backup

You can [view information](#view_points) about restore points in the backup. You can also [list files](#list_files) contained in a restore point.

## Viewing Information About Restore Points {#view_points}

To view information about restore points in the backup, you can use one of the following commands:

```
veeamconfig backup info --id <backup_id>
```

or

```
veeamconfig point list --backupid <backup_id> [--all]
```

where:

- `<backup_id>` — ID of the backup whose restore points you want to view.
- `--all` — instructs Veeam Agent to display information about the restore points in the backup that was created by Veeam Agent for IBM AIX on another machine. 

For example:

```
user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig backup info --id 4f75bb20-a6b6-4323-9287-1c6c8ceccb6b
```

or

```
user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig point list --backupid 4f75bb20-a6b6-4323-9287-1c6c8ceccb6b 
```

Veeam Agent for IBM AIX displays the following information about restore points in the backup:

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="vertical-align:middle; width:20%;">
      <p>Parameter</p>
    </th>
    <th style="vertical-align:middle;">
      <p>Description</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Job name</span></p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p>Name of the backup job by which the backup was created.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p><span style="font-weight:bold;">OIB ID</span></p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p>ID of the restore point in the backup.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Type</span></p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p>Type of the restore point. Possible values:</p>
      <ul>
        <li class="Table_List">Full </li>
        <li class="Table_List">Increment</li>
      </ul>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Created at</span></p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p>Date and time of the restore point creation.</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Is corrupt</span></p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p>Indicates whether restore point in the backup is corrupted. Possible values:</p>
      <ul>
        <li class="Table_List">True</li>
        <li class="Table_List">False</li>
      </ul>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Retention</span></p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p>Displays information about enabled long-term retention per each type: weekly (W), monthly (M) and yearly (Y).</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

For example:

```
user@unixsrv:~$ veeamconfig point list --backupid bd99e384-b62f-47dc-ad38-f0b3dc5d3c40
Job name                OIB ID                                  Type       Created at        Is corrupt  Retention
unixsrv system backup   {9cc7eded-0792-4a49-ac29-cf02d40b1a7d}  Full       2024-06-18 07:38  false       WM 
unixsrv system backup   {691a8478-5334-4c42-8c35-3d170ba2bf00}  Increment  2024-06-19 08:29  false
```

## Listing Files in Restore Point {#list_files}

To view the list of files in a restore point, run the following command:

```
user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig point files --id <point_id> 
```

where `<point_id>` is the ID of the restore point whose files you want to list.

For example:

```
user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig point files --id 9cc7eded-0792-4a49-ac29-cf02d40b1a7d 
```

::: tip

If the restore point contains a large number of files, you may want to send the output of the `veeamconfig point files` command to a file. To do this, specify the path to the output file — for example, `veeamconfig point files --id 9cc7eded-0792-4a49-ac29-cf02d40b1a7d > /tmp/files.list`.

:::