Restore scenario question

[harrym]

Greetings!

Usually setup limited users and restrict access to external hard drive or drives for backup. This is to prevent, say, Cryptolocker infection from having access to the backup drive.

This has not happened yet, but got me thinking. Scenario: If a user has full admin rights, and let's say that Cryptolocker, or a variant encrypts the C:\ProgramData\Veeam\EndpointData mdf databases therein, but the external drive or drives that are not plugged in or part of a rotation that actually contain the backup are intact could recovery still be possible?

Thanks!

[Vitaliy S.]

You can browse to these backup files from the computer which is not affected by any malware and then do the restore. Alternatively, you can use our recovery media to do the restore from that device as well.

[Dima P.]

harrym,

If your machine gets affected by cryptolocker, I am afraid, not only mdf file but all OS will be locked down - so we consider the backup stored on the USB drive (or any offline storage) in conjunction with Veeam Recovery Media the only possible protection from such threat.

As Vitaliy said using the Bare Metal Recovery feature (don’t forget to create a recovery media) will get you up and running for sure.