Users Guide

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 the Core,
which applies by default to all protected machines. By default, the rollup job is run for the
whole Core; or click
to define which protected machines to roll up using the Core policy.
For more information about using a retention policy on a protected machine that differs
from the default policy set in the Core, see Customizing retention policy settings for a
protected machine on page 197.
Check
attachability of
SQL databases
Protected
machine
Checks the integrity of recovery points containing SQL databases. Process:
● Mount the latest recovery point for protection groups containing databases.
● Connect to the database from SQL Server.
● Open the database.
● Close the database.
● Dismount the recovery point.
To enable this nightly check, specify a SQL Server instance to use to perform
attachability checks for SQL Server databases on protected machines.
NOTE: This option does not appear if you are not protecting a SQL Server in your
Core.
Download logs
from protected
machines
Core Downloads logs for protected machines to the Core, so they can be sent to a logging
server.
Consolidate
VMware
snapshots for
protected virtual
machines
Core or
protected
machine
This nightly job is relevant if you use native VMware APIs to protect machines without the
Rapid Recovery Agent software.
You should periodically consolidate VMware snapshots. Enabling this nightly job lets you
perform these consolidations on a daily basis. This nightly job contains one parameter,
Maximum simultaneous consolidations, which must be set to a number between 1 and 100.
Check integrity
of recovery
points
Core or
protected
machine
Checks the integrity of recovery points for each protected machine. By default, the
Check integrity of recovery points option is not enabled.
Process:
● Mount the latest recovery point for every protection group.
● Enumerate the files and folders for each volume.
● Examines the recovery points to ensure that they are valid.
● Dismount the recovery point.
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