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Enable Virus Scanning

CA Anti-Virus software offers extra protection for your critical data, securing it from virus threats even during backup and restore activities.

Using this option, you can configure the Windows client agent to automatically detect and repair viruses during a backup, copy, count, or restore operation.

To enable virus scanning

1. Open the Backup Manager or the Restore Manager.
2. From the toolbar, click the Options button to display the Global Options dialog.
3. Click the Virus tab.
4. Select Enable Virus Scanning.
5. Click the virus scanning options that you want to apply to the client agent. Available options include:

   Skip

   Do not back up or restore an infected file.

   Rename

   Rename the infected files with the extension x.AVB (for example, 0.AVB, 1.AVB, 2.AVB). If a file with the same name and the extension AVB exists, the system will name the file with a numeric version of that extension, for example, AV0, AV1, AV2.

   Delete

   Delete the infected file.

   Cure

   CA Anti-Virus cures the files that have been found to be infected. With the Cure option, infected files are automatically repaired during a backup without user intervention.

6. If you want each archive’s component files individually verified, enable Scan Compressed Files.

   Note: This option may reduce backup or restore performance.