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 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.
- 3rd 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.
To run the Scan Backup session, see Scanning Backups.
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, oVirt KVM, Proxmox VE, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, Citrix XenServer, XCP-ng, Sangfor aSV, Platform9 and VergeOS).
- Image-level virtual machine backups and backup copies of Linux VMs.
- Physical machine backups and backup copies.
- Image-level backups and backup copies created by Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.
- Image-level backups created by Veeam Backup for AWS, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure and Veeam Backup for Google Cloud.
- File share and object storage backups.
The following entities are not supported:
- Backups stored in the Veeam Cloud Connect repository.
- Backups stored in the archive tier of the scale-out backup repository.
- Storage snapshots.
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