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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  3. Section X. Detection and reporting
  4. YARA scanning
  5. About YARA scanning
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

About YARA scanning

YARA stands for 'Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym'.

YARA scanner is a tool that uses YARA rules to find and classify malware and other malicious artifacts within files or memory. YARA allows users to define textual or binary patterns to create rules that identify specific malware families or types of threats.

Support information
  • YARA scanning is supported only for Linux platform with NFS share type.

  • Recovery time scan is not supported for YARA.

See Workflow to configure YARA scanning.

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