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Managing jobs and schedules

A job is any asynchronous task that is managed by the Job Manager. Jobs are typically long-running volume operations such as copy, move, and mirror. You can monitor, pause, stop, and restart jobs, and you can configure them to run on specified schedules.

  • Job categories
    There are three categories of jobs that you can manage: server-affiliated, cluster-affiliated, and private.
  • Commands for managing jobs
    Jobs are placed into a job queue and run in the background when resources are available. If a job is consuming too many cluster resources, you can stop it or pause it until there is less demand on the cluster. You can also monitor and restart jobs.
  • Commands for managing job schedules
    Many tasks—for instance, volume Snapshot copies—can be configured to run on specified schedules. Schedules that run at specific times are called cron schedules (similar to Linux cron schedules). Schedules that run at intervals are called interval schedules. You use the job schedule commands to manage job schedules.