Hi @Fairfielder there’s quite a few questions here but we just need to cut through this to get to what you need.
Let’s break this out into a few pre-requisities:
Backup Repository:
- How is the backup storage presented to your server? Does it just look like a normal NTFS/ReFS file share?
- Did you have to install custom software to access it?
- Is it a network share?
Once we know how this looks, this helps us know what the recovery process will be. It’s most likely going to be a network share with a public IP address that is firewalled within ionos based on some of the other providers I’ve seen, but we’ll need you to provide this information.
Once we know what the score is with the backup repository then we can move to recovery.
You’ve got two requirements:
- You need to be able to access the backup storage, provided it’s a network share or a disk that “appears” local, you shouldn’t have many difficulties in a bare metal recovery scenario, as Veeam’s recovery media will be able to access this natively.
- You need a way of getting the server to boot the recovery media. VirtualBox is going to run VMs within a physical server, and isn’t supported by Veeam as a virtualisation platform so you’d definitely be in unsupported territory there, but that shouldn’t be necessary.
- What you need to ask is, are you expecting to boot up a second server as your DR and immediately install your backup to it? If your primary server was a physical server, are you then planning on restoring it to another physical server, or running the server as a virtual machine in a DR is another way of phrasing this question. In my experience, swapping from physical to virtual is not something you want to do in a DR as you’ll suddenly discover unexpected scenarios such as your hosting provider not offering the VM an IP address and other networking issues in particular.
- If you’re planning to install your backup over the top of another server and effectively “reimage” it, you need that server to be able to boot the recovery media. This is where the discussion of IPMI enters into the equation, IPMI is available for physical servers so if your server you’re protecting is a virtual machine, this won’t be possible, however virtual machines can still boot ISOs, but the path to do so is different.
I would raise these questions with ionos directly, as this Veeam Community is public, if you’re not sure you can point the support engineer to this post and hopefully they’ll understand the context a bit better to advise what is possible within their platform.
Good luck!
