Note for any anti-virus packages installed on a media server where dedup is installed, the deduplication folder structure on the hard disk must be completely excluded from any access blocking or any ability to quarantine files. Failure to do this might result in corruption of the Deduplicated data content and inability to restore.
Reason this is an issue is that when we chunk up the data to identify duplicate chunks to deduplicate, the resulting individual files may be incorrectly identified as suspicious by security scanning software and any form of access denial or file movement affecting the deduplication process itself could cause a major issue within the stored data.
