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Creating Custom Veeam Recovery Media with Command Line Interface

To create a custom Veeam Recovery Media, you need to perform the following operations:

Download the ISO file of the generic Veeam Recovery Media. You can download this file from the Veeam software repository.
Using the downloaded ISO file, create the Custom Veeam Recovery Media.

Downloading Generic Recovery Media

To download the generic Veeam Recovery Media with the command line interface, use the following command:

veeamconfig downloadiso --output <output_path>

where:

<output_path> — path to the downloaded ISO file of the generic Veeam Recovery Media.

Veeam Agent downloads the ISO file of the generic Veeam Recovery Media depending on the Veeam Agent computer architecture. For details, see Veeam Recovery Media ISO Files.

For example:

$ veeamconfig downloadiso --output /mnt/veeam/iso

Creating Custom Recovery Media

To create custom Veeam Recovery Media with the command line interface, use the following command:

veeamconfig patchiso --input <input_path> --output <output_path> --copy <additional_path>

veeamconfig patchiso --efi --input <input_path> --output <output_path> --copy <additional_path>

where:

<input_path> — path to the ISO file of the generic Veeam Recovery Media.
<output_path> — path to the resulting ISO file of the custom Veeam Recovery Media.
<additional_path> — path to a directory with additional drivers that you want to include in the Veeam Recovery Media.

When you boot from the custom Veeam Recovery Media, the content of the directory specified with the <additional_path> parameter will be available in the root folder of the recovery environment.

--efi — option that defines whether custom Veeam Recovery Media should be able to boot on EFI-based systems. Without this option, the custom Veeam Recovery Media will be able to boot on BIOS-based systems only.

For example:

$ veeamconfig patchiso --input /mnt/veeam/iso/veeam-recovery-amd64-5.0.0.iso --output /mnt/veeam/iso/veeam-recovery-media-srv01.iso --copy /tmp/template --efi