Hello,I am experimenting with VBAR11 in a home lab. The backed-up data itself is not important.Boot into recovery mode via usb key. On the usb key is a .vbk file, no .vbm Use bare metal recovery option, veaam is not able to find the .vbk, if I manually select the .vbk, veeam complains about corrupted .vbm file.So it seems that recovery agent, must have a valid .vbm. but in a disaster recovery situation and the .vbm is corrupt, how do i restore?I do know that VBAR itself, can import .vbk without .vbm, so cannot recovery agent do that same?Second question, using the the recovery boot agent, how do i mount the .vbk?Thanks,Dave

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Veeam Recovery Media - Will not restore .vbk

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 3, 2023
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Hello,

I am experimenting with VBAR11 in a home lab. The backed-up data itself is not important.

Boot into recovery mode via usb key. On the usb key is a .vbk file, no .vbm
Use bare metal recovery option, veaam is not able to find the .vbk, if I manually select the .vbk, veeam complains about corrupted .vbm file.

So it seems that recovery agent, must have a valid .vbm. but in a disaster recovery situation and the .vbm is corrupt, how do i restore?

I do know that VBAR itself, can import .vbk without .vbm, so cannot recovery agent do that same?

Second question, using the the recovery boot agent, how do i mount the .vbk?

Thanks,
Dave

Best answer by Chris.Childerhose

@Chris.Childerhosethanks,

hmm, strange that recovery boot agent cannot recover a .vbk without .vbm text file.
yet VBAR can import a single full backup .vbk without .vbm text file.

In any event, using the recovery boot agent, can I mount the .vbk?

No cause the Agent uses a different method to do backups from VBR. So hence why it is looking for the VBM file.

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Chris.Childerhose
Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 3, 2023

Which OS are you trying to restore, and which one was the recovery media created on? There have been some known issues with creating recovery media on newer OSes and you might need to find one that is not newest to create it to work.

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Chris.Childerhose
Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 3, 2023

You also need all files for the backup chain including the VBM, VBK and any VIB files otherwise it will not work.

+14

regnor
Veeam MVP
Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 3, 2023

Did you backup the Veeam Agent to a Veeam Backup&Replication backup repository? If so, and if I remember it right, you can’t take such a backup and point the recovery media to it directly. The only way is to restore from a Veeam repository. Maybe you can try that?

Max M. | Systems Engineer @Veeam | VMCE/VMCA | VeeaMVP 2023 | former Legend & Vanguard

+16

JMeixner
On the path to Greatness
Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 3, 2023

Please see this thread if this helps you.

asdffdsa6132
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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 3, 2023

@Chris.Childerhose thanks,

hmm, strange that recovery boot agent cannot recover a .vbk without .vbm text file.
yet VBAR can import a single full backup .vbk without .vbm text file.

In any event, using the recovery boot agent, can I mount the .vbk?

+21

Chris.Childerhose
Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
May 3, 2023

@Chris.Childerhosethanks,

hmm, strange that recovery boot agent cannot recover a .vbk without .vbm text file.
yet VBAR can import a single full backup .vbk without .vbm text file.

In any event, using the recovery boot agent, can I mount the .vbk?

No cause the Agent uses a different method to do backups from VBR. So hence why it is looking for the VBM file.

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