Re: wdavdaemon / Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux and slow Postgres recovery?

Thanks. I just get

This setting is managed by your organization

so I'm going to have to talk with the IT guys... we have a meeting
scheduled tomorrow.

/Colin

On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 at 21:34, Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt(at)burggraben(dot)net>
wrote:

> ## Colin 't Hart (colinthart(at)gmail(dot)com):
>
> > I wonder if anyone here has any experience with configuring exclusions so
> > that the WAL files can be processed faster?
>
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/linux-exclusions
> mind this:
>
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/linux-exclusions#supported-exclusion-scopes
> and work from these examples (if you're allowed to):
>
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/linux-exclusions#example-3-add-or-remove-a-folder-exclusion
>
> > Any advice on what to communicate with their IT department about using
> this
> > on their database servers? I've never encountered it on Linux before...
>
> "Be glad it only slows your database down. All too often, AV/Endpoint
> Protection Products just don't like the access pattern and eat your
> database for breakfast." There is this joke "it has been 0 days since
> Anti-Virus ate a database".
>
> Regards,
> Christoph
>
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