YARA Scan for Scan Backup

For Scan Backup session, you can run a YARA scan to perform the following operations:

• Find the last clean restore point.
• Analyze the content for specific information, for example, sensitive data.

To perform the YARA scan during the Scan Backup session, do the following:

1. In the Scan Backup window, enable the Scan restore points with the following YARA rule option.
2. Place the YARA file with the .yara or .yar extension in the /var/lib/veeam/yara_rules/ directory. You can add the file through the File view in the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

For more information on how to create a YARA rule, see YARA documentation.

In This Section

• How YARA Scan Works
• Viewing YARA Scan Results