Creating Custom Veeam Recovery Media

In addition to the generic Veeam Recovery Media that is available for download at the Veeam website, you can create a custom Veeam Recovery Media. This option may be helpful if your computer uses hardware that requires drivers not included in the generic Veeam Recovery Media. When you create a custom Veeam Recovery Media, Veeam Agent updates the generic Veeam Recovery Media: copies the Linux kernel running on your computer with its currently loaded modules and includes them into the custom recovery image.

IMPORTANT

Consider the following:

  • The custom recovery image comprises an unsigned Linux kernel. As a result, you cannot use it for UEFI systems with enabled Secure Boot.
  • If you plan to use live patching to create a custom recovery image, consider the limitations.
  • You cannot create a custom Veeam Recovery Media for Veeam Agent computers that run Linux kernel version earlier than 3.10. For a workaround, see this Veeam KB article.
  • You cannot create a custom Veeam Recovery Media for Veeam Agent computers running on IBM Power Systems.

You can create a custom Veeam Recovery Media in one of the following ways:

  • With the Veeam Agent control panel. You can perform this operation in the following conditions:

If you create a custom Veeam Recovery Media using the command line interface, you can also specify a directory that contains additional drivers that you want to include in the recovery media.

Before you create custom Veeam Recovery Media, check the following prerequisites:

  • The Linux system must have the genisoimage package installed. For openSUSE and SLES 15 SP1 – 15 SP5 distributions, the Linux system must have the mkisofs package installed.
  • The Linux system must have the mksquashfs and unsquashfs utilities installed.
  • For custom Veeam Recovery Media with EFI support, the Linux system must have the following packages installed:
  • xorriso
  • isolinux (or syslinux, if the software package repository of your Linux distribution lacks the isolinux package)

 

 

 

Related Topics

Drivers in Veeam Recovery Media