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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  3. Section X. Detection and reporting
  4. Malware scanning
  5. Managing scan tasks for malware and YARA scanning
  6. Recover from malware-affected images (clients protected by protection plan)
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

Recover from malware-affected images (clients protected by protection plan)

To restore from malware-affected recovery points, you must have the Administrator role or equivalent RBAC permissions. To recover a specific recovery point that is affected by malware, see the following topic:

See Recover from malware-affected images (clients protected by policies) .

Note:

Recovery options are not supported for YARA scanning.

To recover from malware-affected images for clients protected by protection plan

  1. On left pane select the supported Workload.
  2. Locate the protected resource and click Actions > Recover.
  3. On the Recovery points tab you can see Malware scan status of each recovery point, as follows:
    • Not scanned

    • Not infected

    • Infected

  4. Select the recovery point.
  5. Select Allow the selection of recovery points that are malware-affected. This option only displays if there are recovery points that contain malware-affected images.

    Note:

    To restore from malware-affected recovery points, you must have the Administrator role or equivalent RBAC permissions.

  6. Click Recover and select the type of recovery. Then follow the prompts.

    For more details on recovering a VM, see the NetBackup for VMware Administrator's Guide.

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