Scan Backup

To scan restore points, Veeam Backup & Replication uses a rule-based detection approach or antivirus software. You can run the Scan Backup session 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.

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).
• 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