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Recovery with Veeam Recovery Media
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Recovery with Veeam Recovery Media

Veeam Recovery Media can be used to restore the entire machine or individual partitions when the OS is not running or does not exist.

For recovery to be possible, you must have a system image with the necessary drivers (Linux) or a boot disk (Windows) created before recovery.

Prepare for recovery on Linux⁠

  1. Download the image.
  2. Add drivers to Veeam Recovery Media.
  3. Optional: when restoring a virtual machine check the certificate fingerprint of the Veeam Cloud Connect cloud repository.

Download image⁠

Restrictions when using Veeam Agent and Veeam Recovery Media are described in the instructions System Requirements и Before You Begin Veeam documentation.

More information about the contents of the standard image in the manual Drivers in Veeam Recovery Media Veeam documentation.

  1. Download a ready-made standard image:

    • on Veeam website (free Veeam account required) — to download, click Get Link → Additional Downloads;
    • from Veeam repository (no account required) — downloading the version is recommended veeam-recovery-amd64-6.0.0.iso

  2. Burn the image. Do not use image burning programs — they may affect the contents and make recovery impossible:

    sudo dd bs=4M if=<path_if> of=<path_of> status=progress oflag=sync

    Specify:

    • <path_if> — path to image veeam-recovery-amd64-5.0.0.iso;
    • <path_of> — the path to which the image will be written.

Add drivers to Veeam Recovery Media⁠

You may need to include additional machine-specific controller and network device drivers in the image.

  1. On the machine with the backup agent installed, launch the Veeam interface:

    veeamconfig ui

  2. Click m → Patch recovery media.

  3. If the machine is connected to the Internet, select Download and patch ISO.

  4. If the machine is not connected to the Internet, select Patch local ISO and specify the path to the downloaded image.

  5. If the machine on which the recovery will be performed uses UEFIcheck the appropriate box.

  6. Select the location where the ready Veeam Recovery Media image will be saved.

  7. Click OK. The process of creating the look will take a few minutes.

Check the certificate imprint⁠

The test can be carried out at restore the machine with Veeam Recovery Media.

  1. When connecting to a cloud repository, select Verify Thumbprint.

  2. Enter the certificate fingerprint:

    65:31:26:6d:cb:15:98:98:44:41:00:95:52:68:c7:f6:85:39:68:f9

  3. After certificate validation, enter your Veeam Service Provider Console portal account credentials.

Prepare for recovery on Windows⁠

When restoring pre-prepared Veeam Recovery Media boot disk is connected to and booted from the computer. The preparation steps may vary depending on the type of computer.

Veeam Recovery Media tools are available for virtual machine recovery:

  • Bare Metal Recovery — restore data from Veeam Agent for Windows backup;
  • Windows Recovery Environment — restore a system image created by built-in Microsoft Windows tools;
  • Tools — tools for system management and diagnostics (command line, password reset, driver loading, memory diagnostics and boot recovery).

Creating a bootable disk⁠

  1. Create a bootable disk using the Create Recovery Media application that was installed with the backup agent. You can include network adapter and storage controller drivers from your current computer or add additional drivers to the boot image. For more information about creating a bootable disk, see Creating Veeam Recovery Media Veeam documentation.
  2. Save the boot disk to an external drive that will be available in case of recovery.