Scan Backup

Scan Backup allows you to perform the following operations:

• Find the last clean restore point after a recent malware attack.
• Find the last clean restore point if the date of the malware attack is unknown.
• Find some specific information, for example, sensitive data.

To scan restore points, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the following engines:

• Veeam Threat Hunter — a signature-based scan engine. For more information, see Veeam Threat Hunter for Scan Backup.
• Third-party antivirus software. For more information, see Antivirus Scan for Scan Backup.
• YARA — a rule-based scan engine. For more information, see YARA Scan for Scan Backup.

Supported Scenarios

You can run the Scan Backup session for the following backups:

• Image-level virtual machine backups and backup copies of Microsoft Windows VMs (VMware, Hyper-V, Cloud Director, Nutanix AHV, OLVM and RHV, Proxmox VE).
• Physical machine backups and backup copies (Microsoft Windows only).

The following entities are not supported:

• Image-level virtual machine backups and backup copies of Linux VMs.
• Backups stored in the Veeam Cloud Connect repository.
• Backups stored in the archive tier of the scale-out backup repository.
• Storage snapshots.

In This Section

• How Scan Backup Works
• Configuring Scan Backup Session
• Veeam Threat Hunter for Scan Backup
• Antivirus Scan for Scan Backup
• YARA Scan for Scan Backup