Bare Metal Recovery (Windows Agent, v4)

To recover the entire computer system on new or existing hardware, use these bare metal recovery steps.

Relevant Veeam KB Articles:

Veeam Agent for Windows User Guide: Bare-Metal Recovery

Veeam Agent for Windows User Guide: Restoring from Veeam Recovery Media

Steps to Follow:

To recover the entire computer system on new or existing hardware, you can use bare-metal recovery. Bare-metal recovery can be helpful in the following cases:

• You want to recover your computer from scratch after a hard failure.
• You want to recover data on a new computer without prior OS installation.

To perform bare-metal recovery, you must have the following:

• Veeam Recovery Media — a bootable recovery image
• Backup of the computer whose data you want to restore. This can be local or in eSilo Cloud.

This scenario describes how to perform bare-metal recovery on the computer without the OS and software installed. For bare-metal recovery, we will use the USB bootable drive with the Veeam Recovery Media, and a backup stored in the eSilo Cloud or if applicable, on an eSilo Backup Server at your site, accessible as a network shared folder.

1. Power on your computer. Make sure that the USB drive is set as the primary boot source.
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2. Insert the bootable USB drive with the Veeam Recovery Media into a USB slot on the computer.
3. Restart the computer. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows will load the Microsoft Windows RE from the Veeam Recovery Media.
4. In the Veeam Recovery Media view, click the Network Settings button and select a network over which you want to connect to eSilo’s Backup Cloud or the shared folder with the backup file. Click OK.
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5. In the Veeam Recovery Media view, click Bare Metal Recovery.
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6. Select Backup Location > Network storage. Click Next.
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7. Under Network Storage, select either:
   1. Veeam Cloud Connect Repository – if restoring from eSilo’s Backup Cloud – most common
   2. Shared Folder – if restoring from an eSilo Backup Server onsite
   3. Click Next.
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8. Provide credentials to access the backups. Click Next.
   1. eSilo Cloud Connect – To directly download backups over the internet, input the login information from your Welcome Email.
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   2. Login with your [Company Name] as the username and account password. Note, do not include the “\[Username]” part at the end.
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   3. eSilo Backup Server – Provide the local IP address and path to the backup server:
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9. Select the necessary backup in the repository. Click Next.
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10. Select a restore point from which you want to restore data. Click Next.
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11. Select Entire computer.
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12. Click Next, then click Restore to start the data recovery process.
13. Once restore is completed, click Finish to close the wizard.
14. Reboot the computer.