Solved Question About Veeam Endpoint Protection Recovery Media
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I have a question regarding Veeam recovery media, as you know during Veeam installation, Veeam create for us a bootable USB to recover the system in case of disaster, I want to know whether I can use the same bootable USB to boot other machine or it is limited only to one machine (that created it) ?
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Adding @Rick-Vanover and @Maria-Levkina both from Veeam.
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The VEP recovery media should work for any device. It should be generic.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The VEP recovery media should work for any device. It should be generic.
No it is not. It builds a unique image for each machine that includes that machines base hardware to ensure networking support when the ISO boots.
If all of your machines are the same or similar hardware, then you should be able to use a single ISO easily.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The VEP recovery media should work for any device. It should be generic.
No it is not. It builds a unique image for each machine that includes that machines base hardware to ensure networking support when the ISO boots.
If all of your machines are the same or similar hardware, then you should be able to use a single ISO easily.
i had a feeling that the recovery media is unique per machine because during the creation it tells you that the drivers will be included in the bootable USB
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No, you just need to write the ISO files to a network share and ensure that is backed up someplace also.
Then you just make a bootable USB form whichever desk you need to full restore.
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@JaredBusch said:
No, you just need to write the ISO files to a network share and ensure that is backed up someplace also.
Then you just make a bootable USB form whichever desk you need to full restore.
it is a good idea, but i have to learn how to export the boot files as iso image in order to save it in a network share
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Do you have Linux? If so, the dd command will do this and is built into every significant Linux distro. If you only have Windows, you can get dd via Chocolatey.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Do you have Linux? If so, the dd command will do this and is built into every significant Linux distro. If you only have Windows, you can get dd via Chocolatey.
no i have only windows
veeam create a bootable USB, what about copying the folders and files in the USB and paste them in folder that has the name of this computer and do the same for next computer, finally we have many folders, each folder contains the USB boot files of each computer, then if we want to boot computer x from the USB, we will go to the folder x and copy paste into USB then boot from USB,
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@IT-ADMIN said:
veeam create a bootable USB, what about copying the folders and files in the USB and paste them in folder that has the name of this computer and do the same for next computer, finally we have many folders, each folder contains the USB boot files of each computer, then if we want to boot computer x from the USB, we will go to the folder x and copy paste into USB then boot from USB,
what do you think about this ??Copying files from a bootable device isn't useful. Image it and store the image file. Don't do anything else. Pasting files into anything (CD, DVD, USB Stick, SD, Hard Drive) cannot be booted. Imaging and file copies are extremely different things.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
it is a good idea, but i have to learn how to export the boot files as iso image in order to save it in a network share
thank youYou can build the ISO directly from within the app.
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Check out the first image in this link. Select the "Image" entry from the listbox to create an ISO.
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Note the highlighted section. This is what embeds the drivers in the ISO, they are checked by default. Also note, I selected to make an image file.
Specify the location for the image file. I use a network share, but you can easily put it on the C drive temporarily and copy it off after the process is done.
Confirm what you picked.
Watch it complete.
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Looks like you could add the network drivers for most if not all of your systems so a single restore image could work for them all.
A bit more work, but only having to hang onto one disk, kinda nice.
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@Dashrender said:
Looks like you could add the network drives for most if not all of your systems so a single restore image could work for them all.
A bit more work, but only having to hang onto one disk, kinda nice.
I assume you meant drivers?
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@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender said:
Looks like you could add the network drives for most if not all of your systems so a single restore image could work for them all.
A bit more work, but only having to hang onto one disk, kinda nice.
I assume you meant drivers?
yes, corrected.
