Searches restore points that already exist for signs of malware, with Veeam Threat Hunter, an antivirus product or YARA rules doing the work. It helps identify the most recent clean point or look through what a backup contains, and no data is written back, which is where it differs from Secure Restore.
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Terms in this definition
- RESTORE
Puts a Delta table back to how it was at an older point, picked by
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A rule language for recognising malware by pattern. Veeam can apply such rules to restore points during Scan Backup, Secure Restore and SureBackup, flagging affected workloads as Infected.
- CONTAINS
Searches columns with a full-text index for words, phrases, prefixes, inflected forms or synonyms; you use it as a predicate in
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Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.
- Secure Restore
Before any data reaches the target, the chosen restore point is mounted on the mount server and checked with Veeam Threat Hunter, antivirus software or YARA rules. Infected files therefore stay out of production.
Related terms
- malware detection
Veeam and third-party checks that look for infected workloads or suspicious activity and raise events. They examine backups, the data stream and indexing data; Scan Backup with Threat Hunter, YARA or antivirus belongs here.
- mount server
Where backup content is mounted for Instant Recovery, Scan Backup, Secure Restore and file or application item restores. One tied to a repository also runs its rescans, health checks and synthetic operations, else the backup server does.