Jobs

A Backup & Restore job refers to the activity of data backup and recovery.

The Backup & Restore > Jobs page of the IBM Fusion user interface offers a comprehensive overview of backup and restore jobs, organized across multiple tab pages. It displays the history of both completed and currently running jobs, which allows you to easily track and manage your backup and restore activities.

In the Summary section of the Jobs tab, you can view the Success rate of jobs. It is the percentage of completed jobs to canceled jobs and failed jobs. For example, if completed jobs are 10 and failed jobs and canceled jobs are 0, the success rate is shown as 100%. You can also view the number of jobs that are in completed, canceled, and failed states. Click the Time filter option and select a time to view the number of completed, canceled, and failed jobs along with the success rate for the selected time period.

In the Queue section, you can view the number of jobs in progress and pending states.

Viewing backup jobs

In the Backups tab, you can see the statuses of all jobs (failed, pending, in-progress, canceled, completed). You can sort the jobs based on Started field. The Backups table lists all the jobs along with the following details:
  • The Name of the respective job. Click the Name to view job details. It takes you to the job details page. For more information, see Jobs details.
    Note: The batch option is unavailable.
  • The Cluster to which the job belongs.
  • The Application that is associated with the job.
  • The Status of the jobs. The table shows all job statuses (failed, pending, in-progress, canceled, completed).
  • The Started column shows the date and time of job creation.
  • The Elapsed time of the jobs. This time is only shown for jobs in progress.
  • The Finished column shows the date and time of job completion.
  • The Policy column shows the policy name of the jobs.
To search for a specific backup job, do the following steps:
  1. Click the
    (filter icon) to view the specified jobs according to your preferences. You can filter and view the required jobs in the jobs table.
  2. Choose the job Status, Policy, Application, Cluster, and Finished time of the job.
  3. Click Apply. It lists the jobs that match your search preferences.

Viewing restore jobs

You can see the all job statuses (failed, pending, in-progress, canceled, completed). In the Restore tab table, you can sort the jobs based on the Finished status.

The job Restores table lists all restore jobs along with the following details:
  • The Name of the respective job. Click the Name to view job details. It takes you to the job details page. For more information, see Jobs details.
  • The Cluster to which the job belongs.
  • The Application associated with the job.
  • The Status of the jobs. The table shows only completed, failed, and canceled jobs.
  • The Started column shows the start date and time of a job.
  • The Elapsed time of the jobs. The time is displayed as Hours:Minutes:seconds.
  • The Finished column shows the completed date and time of a job.
  • The Policy column shows the policy name to the jobs.
To search for a specific backup job, do the following steps:
  1. Click the
    (filter icon) to view the history of specified jobs according to your preferences. You can filter and view the history of required jobs in the history table.
  2. Choose the job Status, Policy, Application, Cluster, and Finished time of the job.
  3. Click Apply. It lists the jobs according to your search preferences.

Cancel jobs

Cancel jobs by using the Backup or Restore CR. Add the following line to the CR specification to cancel jobs that are in queue or running state. 
spec:
  jobControl: cancel

If you cancel during backup, the volume snapshots get removed as a part of cleanup.

If you issue a cancel during restore, the cleanup happens only when you choose a new or an existing namespace.
Note: When you cancel a restore job to the original namespace, cleanup does not happen and can result in a corrupt application after the cancellation completes.

Scale jobs

You can scale out the number of transaction manager pods to process more jobs at the same time. For example, run the following command to increase the number of agent pods to two: 
oc scale deployments/transaction-manager --replicas=2 -n ibm-backup-restore
To the scale out from the OpenShift® Container Platform console, do the following steps:
  1. Change the project to the Backup & Restore install namespace. The default is ibm-backup-restore.
  2. Search and select the transaction-manager deployment.
  3. Click the scale up or down to increase or decrease the scale. It takes about 30 seconds for a replica to start in optimal conditions. Do not click multiple times instead wait for each pod to get to ready status.