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Best Practice for Hi-Volume File server scanning?

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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,

    You can create custom on-deman scheduled scans.  If you open up the main interface (SAVMain.exe).  Click on Scans, then "Setup a new scan", from there you can configure it.  The Schedule this scan link at the bottom allows you to define the time it runs.

    You may be able to run on-access on the server, even if you don't scan the data it serves on access.  For example. I would probably exclude the data and maybe just scan on-read or just on-write to start with and see how the performance is.

    If all the files it serves have a particular extension you could exclude that.  Exclusions are enforced in the on-access driver so it's quite low level so should work well from a performance point of view.  If the files are all on D:\ for example, you could exclude D:\ this way you're protecting the OS but just not scanning the 2TB of data.  Start small and build up is the key, leaving it a few days between each change to be sure.

    Regards,

    Jak

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    Hi,

    You can create custom on-deman scheduled scans.  If you open up the main interface (SAVMain.exe).  Click on Scans, then "Setup a new scan", from there you can configure it.  The Schedule this scan link at the bottom allows you to define the time it runs.

    You may be able to run on-access on the server, even if you don't scan the data it serves on access.  For example. I would probably exclude the data and maybe just scan on-read or just on-write to start with and see how the performance is.

    If all the files it serves have a particular extension you could exclude that.  Exclusions are enforced in the on-access driver so it's quite low level so should work well from a performance point of view.  If the files are all on D:\ for example, you could exclude D:\ this way you're protecting the OS but just not scanning the 2TB of data.  Start small and build up is the key, leaving it a few days between each change to be sure.

    Regards,

    Jak

    :24101
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