# Veeam Duplicate UUID

This is to bypass the UUID check if you have restored an old back to new hardware for example a laptop or physical PC.

#### REGEDIT

To ‘EnableSystemUuidFailover’ key should be added on each Veeam Agent host with non-unique ID.  
  
This is the key enabling Veeam failover logic.  
  
Name: EnableSystemUuidFailover  
Path: HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Veeam\\  
Type: DWORD  
Value: 1  
  
Then a unique ID should be assigned manually on each Agent station.  
Another Veeam registry should be added on each host for it:  
  
Name: SystemUuid  
Path: HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Veeam\\  
Type: REG\_SZ  
Value: {a custom UUID}

Custom UUID should correspond with the standard UUID format rules, brackets are required.  
  
You can use some online generator for it ([https://www.uuidgenerator.net/](https://www.uuidgenerator.net/) ) or put some your own strings there.  
  
Rescan protection group and you are deployed now

#### Disable "Windows recovery image file not found" warning

<div class="post has-profile bg1" id="bkmrk-you-can-add-agentsdi"><div class="inner"><div class="postbody"><div id="bkmrk-you-can-add-agentsdi-1"><div class="content">You can add AgentsDisableRECollectionWarning key here HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication to disable this warning.</div><div class="content"></div><div class="content">Name: AgentsDisableRECollectionWarning</div><div class="content">Path: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\</div><div class="content">Type: DWORD  
Value: 1</div></div></div></div></div>