NetBackup™ Release Notes

Malware detection and recovery web UI enhancements:

• Recover a clean copy of an infected file if available from another backup image in selected data and time range for Standard and MS-Windows policy type.

• A new RBAC permission ("Allow recovery from infected images") lets you restore files from the infected images. Without this permission, you can restore files only from clean or not scanned images.

• Search and scan backup images based on Policy Name, Policy Type, Schedule Type (type of backup), Client Name, Backup copy number, MSDP Disk Pool Name, Malware Scan Status, and date and time range.

• Viewing of infected files now supports searching on the file path. The list of infected files can be exported as CSV file.

• Scan jobs which are in a pending state or an in-progress state can be canceled from the web UI.

Malware detection support is extended to VMware VM backup images:

• On-demand scan support for the Administrator user from Malware Detection by selecting the VMware asset (VM) and triggering a malware scan.

• On-demand scan support for the VMware administrator from Workloads > VMware in the web UI.

• Recovery from a malware-infected recovery point is disabled by default. You must enable "Allow the selection of recovery points that are malware-affected" to recover.

• Single or Bulk Instant VM rollback from a clean recovery point.

In addition following features and enhancements are available with this release:

• Support for non-root users on Linux scan hosts.

• Automated cleanup of scan jobs that are older than 30 days are in clean, failed, or canceled state. This feature is configurable.

• NetBackup Malware Scanner version 2.0 contains improvements that are related to scanning performance and includes multi-threaded scanning support.

  Note:

  If you currently use NetBackup Malware Scanner version 1.0, which is available with NetBackup 10.0, Veritas recommends that you update to NetBackup Malware Scanner version 2.0.