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Understanding nightly jobs
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Understanding nightly jobs
Nightly jobs are daily automated tasks that occur at a predetermined time outside of normal business hours.
These jobs are memory-intensive, and include various integrity checks and data consolidation tasks that are best
conducted when the Rapid Recovery Core is less active.
All the nightly jobs, and the scope for which they can be applied, are described in the following table. Nightly jobs
can be managed at the Core level (which applies to all machines protected on the Core). Those nightly jobs which
can also be applied for a specific protected machine list the scope as "Protected machine."
Table 10. Nightly jobs information
Job Name
Scope
Description
Change
N/A
This control opens the Nightly
Jobs dialog box, where you
can enable, disable, or change
settings for each nightly job.
Nightly jobs time
All
This setting represents the time
that nightly jobs are scheduled to
start running. Dell recommends
configuring your Core to run
nightly jobs during a time of low
activity.
The default time is 12:00 AM.
Rollup
Core or protected machine
Applies the retention policy to your
backed-up data by combining or
"rolling up" recovery points on the
schedule dictated in the policy.
You can customize the policy on
