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Maintenance Policy

The Maintenance policy removes resources and associated objects created by ECX when a policy in a pending state is deleted. The cleanup procedure reclaims space on your storage devices, cleans up your ECX catalog, and removes related snapshots.By default, the Maintenance policy runs once a day, but the job's associated schedule can be altered to run more or less frequently depending on your needs, or the job can be run manually. The policy cannot be deleted.

The Maintenance policy only performs cleanup operations once a policy in a pending state is deleted. All logs associated with the deleted policy are removed from ECX, so it is advised to download job logs before the Maintenance policy's next run. The policy can be stopped and resumed; all pending operations set to occur before the policy was stopped will resume upon the next policy run.

After deleting a pending Application, EMC VNX, IBM, NetApp, or VMware Copy Data policy, all associated copy data, including recovery points, are deleted. The Maintenance policy removes all VM Copies and Primary copies associated with deleted VMware Copy Data and Use Data policies. Similarly, after deleting a pending EMC VNX, IBM, or NetApp Copy Data or Use Data policy, all associated EMC VNX, IBM, and NetApp locations are removed by the Maintenance policy. Once the Maintenance job completes, application, EMC VNX, IBM, NetApp, or VMware data that was copied as part of the copy job cannot be recovered. Any data related to the deleted policy will not be recoverable.

The Maintenance policy also removes cataloged data associated with deleted Application, EMC VNX, IBM, NetApp, and VMware catalog data policies, and removes jobs and job sessions related to Script and Report policies from the ECX interface.