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veeam recovery media for failover cluster


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Hey guys,

A customer of mine has asked whether I could create recovery media for failover cluster but in this link

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/agents/image_create_before.html?ver=110 tells that I cannot create a recovery media and I should enable creation of a Veeam Recovery Media for such clusters with a registry value. Has anyone faced this situation and enabled recovery media with registry value. Also I referred this link https://forums.veeam.com/servers-workstations-f49/unable-to-create-recovery-media-for-server-t73845.html

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Best answer by JMeixner 8 June 2022, 12:50

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Hi @Anandu, it’s only if the cluster is using Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), is that your scenario? If not, you can safely ignore the message.

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Hi @Anandu, it’s only if the cluster is using Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), is that your scenario? If not, you can safely ignore the message.

I think it is because I don’t have the option to create a recovery media

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In my understanding you need for a cluster without Cluster Shared Volumes a “normal” recovery media for each cluster node.

For a cluster with Cluster Shared Volumes you need to contact Veeam support to get the necessary registry value...

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In my understanding you need for a cluster without Cluster Shared Volumes a “normal” recovery media for each cluster node.

For a cluster with Cluster Shared Volumes you need to contact Veeam support to get the necessary registry value...

Joe is correct on this one. 👍

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And if the option for the creation of the recovery media is greyed out… (Sorry, I cannot read this exactly from your original post) Your cluster nodes are running with Windows? The recovery media is supported for Windows server only.

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And one more thing for a cluster without CSV the recovery media options will be specified. Has anyone faced a situation where recovery media is not specified even though it has no CSV?  

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Hey guys, in this link it says veeam cannot backup failover cluster with CSV and CSV will be excluded if you are backing up that cluster. 

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/agents/cluster_support.html?ver=110

Is there recommended way to backup those volumes? Can volume or file level backup solve this? 

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