There is no facility in Veeam to do this that I am aware of and you require the bootable media to restore an OS from backup.
I agree with Chris. What I did in the past - this is clearly experimental - was creating an inidiviual multi-boot ISO with a “menu” that made you able to select between multiple boot images. The first one was the recovery media from Veeam, the second one was a Windows ISO.
Basically you don’t come around a recovery media as far as I know.
maybe also an option for you:
Nico Stein has written an article about integrating the Recovery Media into your boot menu - in this way you dont have to create your media in case you need it, you could access it, on every boot:
Veeam Agent Recovery Media Boot Integration | Nothing a Jameson can't fix
Thanks for all the information guys, this is really helpful. @Dynamic’s suggestion is interesting and is probably the closest to what I’m looking for. We don’t have easy physical access to the server so I was looking for a way to have a bootable backup ready to go with minimal downtime.
But I’m now thinking that as this server is providing DHCP, that configuring DHCP failover would be a better way of minimising the impact of drive failure.
I’m still reading up on recovery strategies using Veeam though, but I see that some form of recovery media is required.
Thanks all!
Thanks for your reply @sparrowhawk!
It would be nice, if you could mark the post that helped you the most as the Best answer, this would help others to find similar solutions.