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\
  This is the default log directory location, if the log directory path has been changed, the AV exclusion must be adjusted to match.
• 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\
• Mount Server Instant recover write cache folder
  Review each repository's Mount Server setting and add an AV exclusion for the write cache path on the Mount Server specified.

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