---
title: "Rescanning Veeam Backup Repository"
description: "If Veeam Agent for Mac fails to display backups stored in the Veeam Backup & Replication backup repository for some reason, you can rescan the Veeam backup repository."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentformac/userguide/backup_repo_rescan.html"
breadcrumb: "User Guide > Performing Backup > Managing Backup Repositories > Managing Backup Repositories in Command Line Interface > Rescanning Veeam Backup Repository"
dateModified: "2026-10-20"
---

# Rescanning Veeam Backup Repository

If Veeam Agent for Mac fails to display backups stored in the Veeam Backup & Replication backup repository for some reason, you can rescan the Veeam backup repository. Veeam Agent will try to reconnect to the Veeam backup server and refresh the list of backups in the backup repository.

To rescan a Veeam backup repository, use the following command:

```
veeamconfig repository rescan --id <repository_id>
```

or

```
veeamconfig repository rescan --name <repository_name>
```

where:

- `<repository_id>` — ID of the backup repository that you want to rescan.
- `<repository_name`> — name of the backup repository that you want to rescan.

For example:

```
$ veeamconfig repository rescan --name [vbr01]BackupVol01
```

You can also rescan all Veeam backup repositories managed by the backup server to which Veeam Agent is connected with the following command:

```
veeamconfig repository rescan --all
```

::: note

When you use the `veeamconfig respotiry rescan` command with the `--all` option, consider the following:

- Rescanning can take significant amount of time if there are multiple repositories configured in Veeam Agent.
- Rescanning multiple object storage repositories may result in greater storage costs due to additional volume of data transactions.

:::