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Job Definition Overview

From the Jobs Monitor tab icon tab you can create and edit job definitions. A job definition is a user-defined set of tasks and rules. Once a job definition is added to ECX, it can be combined with a schedule or trigger to create a job. There are several job types including Inventory, Backup, Restore, Reports, and Scripts.

A schedule is a set of rules for triggering a job definition. Create a schedule to apply to one or more job. Once a schedule is applied, the job sessions are run as defined by the parameters of the schedule.

When a job is run, the job session status is monitored and its status can be watched real-time in the job monitor. Job sessions are run on demand or by trigger.

Best Practice: Create a schedule before creating a job definition so that you can easily add the schedule to the job definition.

Job Types

Inventory jobs

Inventory jobs interrogate storage systems to gather and record metadata about high-level objects and files. You can select one or more providers of the same type in a single job definition for cataloging.

Backup and Restore jobs

ECX utilizes automated Copy Data Management workflows for replicating and intelligently reusing snapshots, vaults, and mirrors. Backup and Restore jobs offer control over testing and cloning use cases, instant recovery, and full disaster recovery. Through Backup and Restore jobs, you can:

Copy data from a variety of storage providers to multiple locations.
Reuse and recover resources from snapshots, vaults, mirrors, and other copies and replicas.
Support use cases for automated data protection, recovery, DevOps, Dev/Test, data and database validation with data masking, through the use of automated Instant Disk Restore, Instant VM Restore, volume, and file restore functionalities.

Report jobs

A Report job is a System job that summarizes information about cataloged providers and the data and other resources that reside on them.

Script jobs

A Script job defines a set of commands to run on the ECX appliance. Use the script job to add functionality to ECX. A script can consist of one or many commands, such as a shell script.

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.