Synology's all-in-one backup solution, Active Backup for Business, supports the backing up of physical devices including Windows PCs and Windows or Linux servers. If you would like to restore an entire device, recovery media can be created by using this solution.

For Windows devices, there are two methods that can be used to do this, depending on your device settings. For automatic recovery media creation, the device you use to create the media must have identical language and region settings, and run the same Windows version and drivers as the device you want to restore. Manual recovery media creation is available for 32-bit systems and other devices that do not meet the criteria for creating automatic recovery media.

For Linux devices, instructions on how to create recovery media are also provided in this guide.

The following chapters provide a step-by-step guide on how to create recovery media for your device.