Managing Background Activities; Viewing Current Background Activities - G-Technology G SPEED STUDIO XL Product Manual

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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.
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• Initialization
• Transition
• Synchronization
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