[Guide] Remove Anti-Virus function from backup jobs
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Last Updated: May 06, 2015 10:42AM PDT
[Guide] Remove Anti-Virus function from backup jobs
Anti-Virus functionality was removed in NovaBACKUP versions 16.5 and newer. This means that if you had enabled Anti-Virus functionality in an older version of NovaBACKUP 16.1 and older and you are attempting to re-use your backup job (script) files the configuration value for enabling Anti-Virus is still going to be in-tact in your job(s) after upgrading to the newer version. Because of this you may see a warning in your logs for the file level backup jobs which DID have Anti-Virus Enabled in the job script and those warnings will show each time you execute a backup job and may be annoying. You can stop the Anti-Virus warnings in your file backup jobs that do currently have Anti-Virus Enabled because you had it enabled prior to upgrading to version 17 which no longer has Anti-Virus, by doing the following by editing your existing backup job files:
Locate your NovaBACKUP UserScripts folder on your C: drive, if it is a newer operating system then the folder will look like the example below. In order to see this hidden folder named "C:\ProgramData" you will have to enable "Show hidden files, folders, and drives" option (for a how-to read this guide) in Windows Explorer or just paste directly in to Windows Explorer as the path C:\ProgramData:
"C:\ProgramData\NovaStor\NovaStor NovaBACKUP\UserScripts\Your_Username\"
If it is an older operating system such as Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 then the folder structure will look like this to navigate to:
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\NovaStor\NovaStor NovaBACKUP\UserScripts\Your_Username\"
Then inside that folder locate the "AppWizard" and/or "Backup" folders and see if you have any files with the ".nbk" (".nbk" files are your file level backup job files) file extension in those folders (you may need to enable Show File Extensions in Windows Explorer to see the file extension) and edit each one with your "Notepad" application that is built in to Windows, the standard Notepad.exe application. You will then remove the three lines of text from all of your backup job script(s) that current have the Anti-Virus function Enabled:
[virus]
VirusAction=0
VirusEnabled=1
Remove all three lines of text and save the file in Notepad. Now you can re-try running the job(s) that you just edited to remove those lines of Anti-Virus text, no need to exit NovaBACKUP for this change to be enacted.
SPECIAL NOTE: If while running an older version of NovaBACKUP you had Enabled Anti-Virus as a "Default Setting" in the "Default Settings" area of NovaBACKUP to enable Anti-Virus by default (for any new jobs that are created) then you may also want to remove the same lines of text as the example above that would then be inside the "nsdef.ini" file which is located in NovaBACKUP's Profiles folder here:
"C:\ProgramData\NovaStor\NovaStor NovaBACKUP\Profiles\".
If it is an older operating system such as Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 then the folder structure will look like this to navigate to:
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\NovaStor\NovaStor NovaBACKUP\Profiles\"
Remove these lines of text from the "nsdef.ini" file located in this folder:
[virus]
VirusAction=0
VirusEnabled=1
Save the file in Notepad. Exit NovaBACKUP and re-start NovaBACKUP for the change to be enacted.