Job types

Jobs are used to run backup, restore, maintenance, inventory, and report operations in IBM Storage® Protect Plus.

Backup and restore jobs are user defined. After you create these jobs, you can modify the jobs at any time. Maintenance, inventory, and report jobs are predefined and not modifiable. However, you can modify the schedules of maintenance, inventory, and report jobs.

You can run all jobs on demand, even if they are set to run on a schedule. You can also hold and release jobs that are set to run on a schedule.

The following job types are available:

Backup: A backup job defines the resources that you want to back up and the service level agreement (SLA) policy or policies that you want to apply to those resources. Each SLA policy defines when the job runs. You can run the job by using the schedule that is defined by the SLA policy or you can run the job on demand.; You can also run backup jobs for a single resource or multiple selected resources that are associated with an SLA policy rather than backing up all resources that are associated with the policy.; The job name is auto generated and is constructed of the resource type followed by the SLA policy that is used for the job. For example, a backup job for SQL Server resources that are associated with the SLA policy Gold is sql_Gold.

Restore

A restore job defines the restore point that you want to restore data from. For example, if you are restoring hypervisor data, the restore point might be a virtual machine. If you are restoring application data, the restore point might be a database.

Restore jobs are ran on a schedule or on demand.

For scheduled jobs, the job name is defined by the user who creates the job.

For on-demand jobs, the job name onDemandRestore is auto generated when the job is run. On-demand restore jobs are removed from job history when the job is 3 days old and it is not in a pending or running state, and when it is not in Active Resources.

Maintenance

The maintenance job runs once a day to remove resources and associated objects that are created by IBM Storage Protect Plus when a job that is in a pending state is deleted.

The cleanup procedure reclaims space on storage devices, cleans up the IBM Storage Protect Plus catalog, and removes related snapshots. The maintenance job also removes cataloged data that is associated with deleted jobs.

The job name is Maintenance

Inventory

An inventory job is run automatically when you add a resource to IBM Storage Protect Plus. However, you can run an inventory job at any time to detect any changes that occurred since the resource was added.

The inventory job names are Default Application Server Inventory, Default Hypervisor Inventory, and

Default Storage Server
Inventory

Report

A report job runs a scheduled report. The job name is the report name preceded by Report_.

Report names are similar to the following example:

Report_VM Backup History

Log backup: Log backup files for databases contain committed transaction data. This transaction data can be used to run a rollforward recovery process as part of a restore operation. Using database log backups enhances the recovery point objective for your data.; When you enable log backups for the first time, you must run a backup job for the SLA policy to activate log archiving to IBM Storage Protect Plus on the database.