Veeam Backup & Replication • Re: Baremetal recovery from USB disk, what disk format

Hi sandsturm

Our recovery media is based on Windows RE environment. Windows cannot read XFS file systems.
The USB disk should have a NTFS filesystem.

The USB disk was attached to a Linux hardened repository server and a backup copy job writes the data to this usb disk.

I don't recommend connecting USB disks directly to a Linux hardened repository. That way you introduce a new attack capability.
Please also consider, that you cannot do bare metal recovery directly from backup copy files on a USB disk.

Veeam Agent Backup Copy backup files always have to be restored over network from a Veeam Repository. The recovery media cannot directly read them from the usb disk. Only backup files from a backup job can be restored directly.

Best,
Fabian

Statistics: Posted by Mildur — Apr 29, 2025 9:01 am

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