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  2. NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide
  3. Anomaly detection
  4. Computation of entropy and file attributes in NetBackup
  5. Support information for computation of entropy and file attributes
NetBackup™ Security and Encryption Guide

Support information for computation of entropy and file attributes

To use the computation of entropy and file attributes feature, NetBackup primary server, and media server must be 10.4 or later, and NetBackup clients must be 10.3 or later.

Job types that the computation of entropy and file attributes feature supports
  • Backup

  • Backup from Snapshot

Policy types that the computation of entropy and file attributes feature supports
  • Cloud (virtual machines only - excluding PaaS)

    Note:

    The Enable granular recovery for files or folders option must be selected.

  • Cloud-Object-Store

  • FlashBackup

  • FlashBackup-Windows

  • MS-Windows

  • Standard

  • VMware (excluding Continuous Data Protection plan)

Protection plans that the computation of entropy and file attributes feature supports
  • Cloud (virtual machines only - excluding PaaS)

    Note:

    The Enable granular recovery for files or folders option must be selected.

  • VMware (excluding Continuous Data Protection)

Note:

The computation of entropy and file attributes feature does not support Ushare policy type.

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