Virus protection

[AndriiPushkarov]

Hi all, 

Veritas recommends that you exclude directories for the scanner virus.  See the General recommendations for virus scanner exclusions working with NetBackup.

How to protect MSDP pool from a virus? How to make a reliable Netbackup Catalog backup, after which to have the confidence of recovery?

Thanks in advance for answer

Andrii

[Marianne]

Antivirus software is actually a threat to MSDP - it may delete database bin files and corrupt the MSDP images.

Some TNs:

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000006713

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.HOWTO61249

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000043063

MSDP Catalog backup is covered in NBU Dedupe Guide:

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/25074086-127355784-0/v97247266-127355784

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/25074086-127355784-0/v97247781-127355784

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/25074086-127355784-0/v100016542-127355784

[Nicolai]

Making Netbackup sure is not only antivirus scanning, is also a question about behaviour.

E.g. Not downloading and executing code from random locations, ensure security patches are installed, no open shares etc etc.

But please do configure a MSDP catalog backup - it's highly recommended.