This document explains the best practices when implementing and configuring environments for CA ARCserve RHA specifically with regards to various popular anti-virus applications available to date of this document.
Due to the sheer nature of replication read / write IO that is required the CA ARCserve RHA engine process should be excluded whenever possible from anti-virus "On Read Access" or scanning all-together. This will alleviate additional IO overhead on the read access of the files that we need to capture changes from and also the amount of IO that occurs when we create our journal files for replication within the RHA “Spool” directory.
Many popular anti-virus solutions allow for an entire process to be excluded from scanning or at the very least “On read access” scans. These are below with information pertaining to how to enable such exclusions.