Manually validating recovery points

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
You can validate the recovery points by identifying if any of the recovery points are corrupted. You can verify both base and incremental images.
This validation is independent of your backup jobs. At any given point you can validate the older recovery points. You can verify recovery points located on a local or network location.
At a time you can specify one recovery point for validation. After the validation is complete, a list of corrupted recovery points is displayed.
A PowerShell script is used for this validation of recovery points. This script is available in the Arctera System Recovery media. \<media path\>\Docs\Automation\PowerShellscripts
This feature is not available from the Arctera System Recovery user interface and only available using the Powershell script.
If you give the path of the first incremental, the script validates the first incremental and then the base recovery point and not the second incremental.
For example, in case of a full backup (.v2i) and its incremental backups (.iv2i), if you have one full backup and two incremental images, and you give the path of the second incremental for validation, the script validates the second incremental and then proceeds to the base recovery point.
To manually validate recovery points
  1. Launch the PowerShell command line.
  2. Change the directory to where the PowerShell script is available and enter \\VERIFYIMAGE.psl and the location of the recovery point (local or network).
    Note: You can also give the path of the PowerShell script and the location of the recovery point without changing the directory.
If you have specified a network location, provide the username and password after the network location.
The script verifies the backup image and lists corrupted images, if any. If none of the backups are corrupt, a message is displayed that the backups are validated successfully.