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recover media for macos can find network servers

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I made a bootably recovery USB for my macos Catalina. It will boot just fine, but it can't restore. It has no network connections pre-installed (like the windows one does), and I can't connect to my local SMB server to restore from it. The mac does happily back up to this server every day, so clearly true image knows about the connection, knows the password and everything. 

Not only is the connection not there like I expect it to be, I can not establish an smb connection. I tried smd://servername/folder as well as smb://ipaddress.

So - my questions: should be connection used for backup be configured in the recovery media already?
I'm trying to connect using wifi. Does the recovery media not know about wifi?

Thanks!

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Bruce, welcome to these public User Forums.

Caveat: I am a Windows user with no direct experience of using ATI on any Mac.

Wi-Fi support in the Windows rescue media is not the easiest area to get working and the recommendation has always been to use a wired network connection for both speed and reliability, so I suspect that if you tried the same approach with your Mac media that you should be able to establish a connection to your network storage server.