Administering files for Transparent cloud tiering

When you use Transparent cloud tiering, there are maintenance tasks that must be done. It is recommended that you put them in a scheduler to make sure that the maintenance activity is performed. Since these maintenance activities affect overall data throughput, schedule them one at time (do not schedule them simultaneously) during non-peak demand times.

1. Reconcile your files once a month to make sure that the cloud directories that are maintained by Transparent cloud tiering services and the file system are synchronized.
2. Do a full backup of the cloud directory once a month to allow for faster and cleaner handling of disaster recovery and service problems.
3. Run the cloud destroy utility to remove files that are deleted from the file system from the cloud system.

These steps must be run for each Transparent cloud tiering container in the file system.