To restore a Veeam server-led Linux backup (Agent managed by Backup & Replication) as a bare-metal / full image restore, you must use Veeam Recovery Media — not just file-level restore.

Below is the proper process for a full volume/image restore.

🔎 First — Confirm What Type of Backup You Have

Server-led Linux backups in Veeam Backup & Replication using Veeam Agent for Linux are image-level backups.

That means:

• Full disk layout is captured
• Boot loader included
• LVM supported
• GPT/MBR preserved
• Suitable for bare-metal recovery

So yes — it supports true bare-metal restore.

🧰 What You Need

Before starting:

1. Access to your Veeam repository
2. Network connectivity to it
3. The original backup job still exists (or you know its location)
4. Veeam Linux Recovery ISO (created previously or downloadable)

If you didn’t create recovery media earlier, you can still generate it from VBR.

🥇 Step 1 — Create Recovery Media (If You Don’t Already Have It)

On your VBR server:

1. Go to Inventory → Physical & Cloud Infrastructure
2. Right-click the Linux machine
3. Create Recovery Media

It generates:

• Bootable ISO
• Includes drivers
• Includes network settings if configured

Save it.

🥾 Step 2 — Boot Target Machine From Recovery ISO

This can be:

• Same hardware
• Replacement hardware
• VM (for P2V scenario)

Boot from the ISO.

You’ll get the Veeam Linux Recovery environment.

🌐 Step 3 — Configure Network

From recovery UI:

• Configure NIC
• Set IP / DHCP
• Test connectivity to repository or VBR server

This is critical.

No network = no restore.

🔐 Step 4 — Connect to Backup Repository

In recovery menu:

Choose:

Bare Metal Recovery

Then select:

• Connect to Veeam Backup & Replication server
  OR
• Connect directly to repository (SMB/NFS)

Authenticate.

Browse backups.

💽 Step 5 — Select Restore Point

Choose:

• The desired restore date
• Entire machine restore

You’ll see:

• Disk layout
• Partitions
• LVM volumes
• EFI partitions

⚙ Step 6 — Map Disks

If restoring to:

Same disk layout

Just restore as-is.

Different disk layout

You can:

• Resize partitions
• Map old disk → new disk
• Adjust layout manually

Veeam handles:

• GPT
• MBR
• EFI
• BIOS
• LVM

🚀 Step 7 — Start Restore

The process:

• Restores partition table
• Restores bootloader
• Restores data
• Rebuilds LVM metadata
• Rewrites GRUB

When complete:

Reboot. Remove ISO.

System should boot normally.

🧠 Special Cases

🔹 Restore to VM (P2V)

If you want to restore physical Linux into VMware/Hyper-V:

Instead of recovery ISO, you can use:

Restore to VM

From VBR console directly.

That injects disks into a VM automatically.

Cleaner for virtualization scenarios.

🔹 LVM + XFS + GPT

Fully supported.

Just ensure recovery ISO matches major agent version.

⚠ Common Failure Points

• No NIC driver in recovery ISO
• Wrong repository credentials
• Restoring to smaller disk
• UEFI vs BIOS mismatch
• Secure Boot enabled

🧩 If Internet Is Down During Disaster

Recovery does NOT require internet. Only access to your repository.

This is fully offline capable.

🏁 Quick Summary

To do bare-metal restore of a server-led Linux backup:

1. Boot from Veeam Linux Recovery ISO
2. Connect to repository/VBR
3. Choose Bare Metal Recovery
4. Map disks
5. Restore

That’s it.