Safe recovery

A backed-up image of an operating system might be infected with a malware and can reinfect the machine on which it is being recovered.

Safe recovery allows you to prevent the recurrence of such infections by using the integrated antimalware scanning and malware deletion during the recovery process.

Limitations:

• Safe recovery is only supported for physical and virtual Windows machines with Agent for Windows installed inside them.
• Only backups of type Entire machine or Disks/volumes are supported.
• Only volumes with NTFS file system are supported. Non-NTFS partitions will be recovered without being scanned for malware.
• Safe recovery is not supported for Continous data protection (CDP) backups. A machine will be recovered based on the last regular backup, without the data in the CDP backup. To recover the CDP data, run a Files/folders recovery.

How it works

If you enable the Safe recovery option during the recovery process, then the system will perform the following:

1. Scan the image backup for malware and mark the infected files. One of the following statuses is assigned to the backup:

   • No malware – No malware was found in the backup during scanning.
   • Malware detected – Malware was found in the backup during scanning.
   • Not scanned – The backup was not scanned for malware.
2. Recover the backup to the selected machine.
3. Delete the detected malware.

You can filter backups by using the Status parameter.