Boot BMR from Server 2012 R2 Dedup Volume

[Hariseldon1]

Topic:
Bare Metal Recovery "BMR" via Veeam Recovery USB media

Background Information:
Running free edition of VEB [now VAW] on PC running Windows Server 2012 R2 w/ DeDuplication used on all locally attached volumes [all SATA drives]

Question:
Can Veeam Bootable Recovery Media perform bare metal restore from locally attached volumes [all SATA drives] but that local volume were itself deduped by Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 DeDupe?

(Can Veeam Bootable Recovery Media re-hydrate data from a volume that has been DeDuplicated in Windows Server 2012 R2 native DeDuplication functionality?)

[Dima P.]

Hello Hari,

No, Veeam Recovery Media does not have deduplication drivers included. You need to mount this volumes to the Windows server (same version of dedup drivers) and then point recovery media to this server (via Veeam B&R repository or File Share destination).

[Hariseldon1]

Greetings Veeam!

If I have a physical server running Windows 2012 R2 backed up with Veeam Agent for Windows -- backup destination is a locally attached USB hard drive.

And if I have that Veeam Agent destination locally attached USB hard drive configured for Server 2012 R2 NTFS DataDeduplication

If I should perform a BMR using the USB bootable Recovery Media... will the required drivers be bundled to dehydrate the deduplicated repository location storing the Veeam backup?

(or will BMR fail because Recovery Media does not support ntfs data deduplication?)

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Hari, a reply from Dima P. is still valid for your scenario. Thanks!

[Hariseldon1]

Thank you Dima/Vitaliy! (I will experiement with good hearted -meant- humor in my reply) hehehe

<sarcasm class='light' font='humorous best effort'>
So to summarize: to BMR a physical Server #1 (w/ attached usb backup storage drive) from boot w/ Recovery Media... you a physical Server #2 running Win Server 2012 R2 to temporarially host the usb backup storage drive and rehydrate the veeam backup job data via SMB?

(or just buy a 'big-friggen-usb-drive' and do not ntfs dedup attached usb backup storage drive)
</sarcasm class='light' font='humorous best effort'>

[Vitaliy S.]

Hari,

Yes, that's correct . You need to select network storage in the recovery media wizard or do not use dedupe device when planning to do a BMR operation.

Thanks!