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Best Practice for Hi-Volume File server scanning?

Fogbuster

Hello, I installed standalone antivirus ver 10 on a Windows 2008 File server which has over 2TB of data that is accessed by hundreds of people each day during business hours.  

With prior products I set up a evening or weekend scan to run so the CPU would not take a hit during the day.  I do not see a way to schedule off-hours scans for all files.  I do not feel safe using on-access scanning for a file server with such a high volume of user activity.

I did a search for scheduled scans on the forum but it all seemed geared towards clients and not servers.  My question is:  What are the best practices for anti-virus protection for large amounts of data with high volume access that does not negatively impact the CPU?

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Drew 

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    Hi

    Why don't you place your file server into a new group and apply a new AV policy that has a scheduled full local scan each night at say 10pm to mitigate the risk not having on-access scanning turned on?

    I'm running a new file server with 2TB dedicated disk space, 6GB RAM, Xeon E5649 using on-access read only scanning and have not had any problems. 

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    Hi

    Why don't you place your file server into a new group and apply a new AV policy that has a scheduled full local scan each night at say 10pm to mitigate the risk not having on-access scanning turned on?

    I'm running a new file server with 2TB dedicated disk space, 6GB RAM, Xeon E5649 using on-access read only scanning and have not had any problems. 

    :24099
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