Deactivation of Anti-Virus-Protection for full backup

[Tora]

Hello folks,

I heard that you should disable your AV-Program during a full system-backup, can anyone tell me why this should be so (maybe some data-inconsistency in databases or files)? If anyone has some proposals how to handle backups and AV-Prgs. please answer to this post.

Thanks in advance

[Andy84]

hi,

it is not necessary to disable the AV while taking backup..

However, make sure you add and exception to exclude the backup exec executable or backup exec folder, that is c:\program files\symantec\backup exec from the AV-program.

this should take care of the backups.

this is done to avaoid AV scan intruption in the backups.