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Managing the Pegasus R4iPegasus R4i Product Manual
Managing Background Activities
Background activity management includes:
• “Viewing Current Background Activities”
• “Viewing Scheduled 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”
• “Transition”
• “Synchronization”
Background activities perform a variety of preventive and remedial 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.