How to Perform Bare Metal Recovery
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.
To learn how to create Veeam Recovery Media, see Creating Veeam Recovery Media.
- Backup of the computer whose data you want to restore.
To learn how to create a backup, see Creating Backup Jobs.
These scenarios describe 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.
Depending on where the backup is stored, see one of the following sections: