G-Technology G Speed studio - Managing Background Activities

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Managing Background Activities
Background activity management includes:
• “Viewing Current Background Activities”
• “Adding a Scheduled Background Activity”
• “Changing a Background Activity Schedule”
• “Enabling or Disabling a Scheduled Background Activity”
• “Deleting a Scheduled Background Activity”
• “Media Patrol”
• “Redundancy Check”
• “Initialization”
• “Rebuild”
• “Migration”
• “PDM”
Background activities perform a variety of preventive functions on your physical drives,
disk arrays, logical drives and other components.
You can run a background activity immediately or schedule it to run at a later time.
Scheduling options are described below.
Setting options for each activity are listed after the scheduling options. These settings
determine how the background activity affects I/O performance.
Viewing Current Background Activities
To view a list of background activities, click on the Background Activities icon in the Toolbar.
The following list of background activities will appear:
• Media Patrol
• Redundancy Check
• Rebuild
Currently running activities show a progress bar.
• Transition
• Synchronization
• Initialization
• Migration
• PDM