Viewing Backup Details

You can view detailed information about specific backup. To view backup details, use the following command:

veeamconfig backup show --id <backup_id>

where:

<backup_id> — ID of the backup for which you want to view detailed information.

For a volume-level backup, Veeam Agent for Linux displays the following information:

Parameter	Description
Machine name	Host name of the machine on which the backup job is configured and the name of the job.
Name	Name of the volume in the backup.
Device	Path to the block device file that represents the volume.
FS UUID	File system ID.
Offset	Position of the volume on the computer disk.
Size	Size of the volume in the backup.

For example:

user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig backup show --id 4f75bb20-a6b6-4323-9287-1c6c8ceccb6b
Machine name: srv01 SystemBackup
Name: [sda1]
Device: [/dev/sda1]
FS UUID: [6945f2eb-e8bb-48fe-a276-5ba67b9030a5]
Offset: [1048576] bytes (2048 sectors)
Size: [9999220736] bytes (19529728 sectors)

For a file-level backup, Veeam Agent for Linux displays the following information:

Parameter	Description
Machine name	Host name of the machine on which the backup job is configured and the name of the job.
Backed up	Backup scope for the file-level backup job.

For example:

user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig backup show --id ea64a7e5-038a-4c86-970a-6d59d4cf3968
Machine name: srv01 DocsBackup
File-level backup
Backed up:
/home/user/Documents