#Veeam recovery media drivers#
The other checkbox ( Include the following storage and network hardware drivers) allows you to add additional drivers to the media. This will make sure that all the specific network, storage and USB drivers are included on the media so that specific hardware will be loaded when booting from the recovery media Very important on this screen is the Include hardware drivers from this computer checkbox. One note here, whatever media you are using note that it will be erased completely and formatted as a boot media. As long as that media is attached to your computer, it will be detected and even if you attach it afterwards, the wizard will detect this and auto-update the possibilities to choose from. The first window in the window will ask you to specify the media as already explained above. Let’s have a better look at a few options you have when you create the recovery media.
#Veeam recovery media update#
Normally, during the lifetime of your endpoint it is not necessary to update it unless you change network or wireless cards and / or storage device. My advice is to build this recovery media as soon as possible on a USB flash drive or media of your choice and then store it away somewhere safely. You can use different devices to create the bootable recovery media such as DVDs, USB flash drives, SD cards or simply save it as an ISO and burn it with another 3 rd party tool that you prefer to use. You will need the recovery media when you want to do a bare metal recovery or when you want to restore an active volume. This is also one of these tasks that you can skip but I highly advice you to do it immediately during installation or short after. This will allow the computer to wake up from sleep to take the daily backup, and as you will see in other demo recordings put it back to sleep afterwards to save energy.Īfter that, or when you skipped it you can create the bootable recovery media. You will also get a question whether you want to change the power settings (depending if it is not yet active in your current power plan). You can easily accept the defaults and change them afterwards as we will see later on. Default exclusions: temporary files folder, Recycle Bin, Microsoft Windows pagefile, hibernate file and VSS snapshot files from the System Volume Information folder.Target Destination: USB device attached to the computer.For many users, the default settings will be perfect and they can proceed with doing so. In order to do so, you need to have a USB drive that is at least half of the selected source (entire PC) in size. I’m not going to run over the installation, which is very easy to do, however, during the installation you need to make a few decisions.Īfter the installation, the wizard will ask you if you want to configure your backup with the default settings.
#Veeam recovery media how to#
Now we are going to look on how to start with the product. In the previous post we ran quickly through the requirements and architecture of Veeam Endpoint Backup Free. Ch.12 – Support for Veeam Endpoint Backup FREEĬh.14 – Moving your backups to a different location