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, Proxmox VE).
- Image-level virtual machine backups and backup copies of Linux VMs.
- Physical machine backups and backup copies.
- Backups created by Veeam Backup for AWS, Veeam Backup for Google Cloud, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.
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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