How to configure antivirus exclusions to prevent interaction with Veeam Backup & Replication

Antivirus Exclusions:

Folders on the Veeam Backup & Replication Server:

• C:\Program Files\Veeam\
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Veeam\
• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Veeam\
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Veeam\
• VBRCatalog Path
  
  This path can be found in the registry under the value named CatalogPath in the key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup Catalog\
• NFS Path
  
  This path can be found in the registry under the value named RootFolder in the key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Veeam\Veeam NFS\
• C:\VeeamFLR\
• C:\Windows\Veeam\
• %programdata%\Veeam\
• C:\Windows\TEMP\*\veeamflr-*.flat

Folders on Guest OS of Machines protected:

• C:\Windows\VeeamVssSupport\
  Folder will only be used if either Application-Aware Processing or Guest File System Indexing are enabled.
• C:\Windows\VeeamLogShipper\
  Folder will only be used on SQL Servers when SQL Server Transaction Log Backup is enabled.

Folders on VMware Backup Proxies, Gateway Servers, and Hyper-V Hosts:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Veeam\
• C:\Windows\Veeam\

Folders on Windows Repositories:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Veeam\
• C:\Windows\Veeam\
• %programdata%\Veeam\
• *Also include the path to the backup files*
• *Also include the path to 'ArchiveIndex' for capacity tier*

Folders on WAN Accelerator:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Veeam\
• C:\Windows\Veeam\
• *Path of WAN cache on WAN accelerators*

Repository Proccess:

• VeeamAgent.exe
• VeeamAgent64.exe