Understanding recovery & recovery verification

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Hey guys,I just wanna understand the difference between recovery and recovery verification.Recovery verification is testing VM Backups for malware scan and if nothing found we proceed for restore. While performing recovery, there is an option to perform malware scan.The question here is for recovery if the customer chooses to perform malware scan then what is the difference between recovery & recovery verification? Can anyone tell me or am I wrong somewhere?

Mildur · Accepted Answer

Recovery & and recovery verification are not related with a malware scan.

A malware scan is optional.

Recovery:

You restore data back to production. An entire vm, a single item, a sql database.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/data_recovery.html?ver=110

Recovery Verification:

You configure Veeam Sure Backup Jobs to verify your backup data, if it‘s possible todo a recovery in case, you need to do a DR someday.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/surebackup_recovery_verification.html?ver=110

Optional Malware Scan:

This is a feature called Secure Restore. Veeam will use an installed antivirus software on the mount server to check the content of the vm in the backup data before releasing it to the production environment.

This can be done in vm restores or in a surebackup job session. For the entire List, click on the link.
In the surebackup Job session, it will only be tested for malware and never be released onto production storage.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/av_scan_about.html?ver=110

vNote42 · Answer

I think, @Mildurdid summarize this very well! Additionally you can run some “clearing”-scripts before restore with the Staged Restore feature.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/staged_restore_about.html?ver=110

Understanding recovery & recovery verification

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