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Maintenance Job

The Maintenance job removes resources and associated objects created by ECX when a job 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 job 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 job cannot be deleted.

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

After deleting a pending Application, DellEMC Unity, IBM, NetApp ONTAP, Pure Storage FlashArray, or VMware Backup job, all associated copy data, including recovery points, are deleted. The Maintenance job removes all VM Copies and Primary copies associated with deleted VMware Backup and Restore jobs. Similarly, after deleting a pending DellEMC Unity, IBM, NetApp ONTAP, or Pure Storage FlashArray Backup or Restore job, all associated DellEMC Unity, IBM, NetApp ONTAP, and Pure Storage FlashArray locations are removed by the Maintenance job. Once the Maintenance job completes, application, DellEMC Unity, IBM, NetApp ONTAP, Pure Storage FlashArray or VMware data that was copied as part of the backup job cannot be recovered. Any data related to the deleted job will not be recoverable.

The Maintenance job also removes cataloged data associated with deleted Application, DellEMC Unity, IBM, NetApp ONTAP, Pure Storage FlashArray and VMware Inventory jobs, and removes jobs and job sessions related to Script and Report jobs from the ECX interface.