Before You Begin

You can create a Veeam Recovery Media for a protected computer in Veeam Backup & Replication if the following conditions are met:

A full backup file of one of the following backup types was created for the protected computer on the target location by a Veeam Agent backup job:

Entire computer backup
Volume-level backup of the computer OS data (created with the Operating system option selected in the backup job settings) or computer system volume
File-level backup of the computer OS data created with the Operating system option selected in the backup job settings

Before You Begin NOTE

You can create a Veeam Recovery Media for a protected computer using a copy of a full backup file that meets all the conditions. To learn more, see the Backup Copy section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

By default, you cannot create a Veeam Recovery Media for a failover cluster with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). As a workaround, you can create a Veeam Recovery Media directly on the failover cluster node. To learn more, see this Veeam KB article.

Removable Storage Device Scenario (USB, SD Card and Other)

The removable storage device must be inserted into a corresponding slot on the computer or connected to the computer.
The removable storage device must have enough capacity to store the created recovery image. On average, the size of the created recovery image without manually loaded drivers is 500 MB.
During the recovery image creation, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows formats the removable storage device. If you have important information on the device, create a copy of this data in some other location.

CD/DVD/BD Scenario

An empty or re-writable CD/DVD/BD must be inserted into a CD/DVD/BD drive on the computer.
The CD/DVD/BD must have enough capacity to store the created recovery image. On average, the size of the created recovery image without manually loaded drivers is 500 MB.
[For RW CD/DVD/BD] During the recovery image creation, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows erases information on the CD/DVD/BD. If you have important information on the CD/DVD/BD, create a copy of this data in some other location.