Running Background Activities

To run a background activity from the Background Activities tab:

1.In Tree View, click the Subsystem icon.

2.In Management View, click the Background Activities tab and select one of the following from the dropdown menu.

Media Patrol

Rebuild

PDM

Transition

Initialization

Redundancy Check

3.In the next screen, make the choices as requested.

4.Click the Start button.

Running Media Patrol

Media Patrol checks the magnetic media on physical drives. When it finds the specified number of bad blocks, it will trigger PDM.

You can also schedule Media Patrol to run automatically.

To run Media Patrol:

1.In Tree View, click the Subsystem icon.

2.From the dropdown menu on the Background Activities tab, select Start Media Patrol.

3.In the next screen, click the Start button.

Running PDM

Predictive Data Migration (PDM) migrates data from the suspect physical drive to a spare disk drive, similar to Rebuilding. But unlike Rebuilding, PDM acts before the disk drive fails and your Logical Drive goes Critical.

To run PDM:

1.In Tree View, click the Subsystem icon.

2.In Management View, click the Background Activities tab and select Start Media Patrol from the dropdown menu.

3.In the next screen, select the Source and Target physical drives.

The suspect physical drive is the source. The replacement physical drive is the target.

4.Click the Start button.

Viewing Scheduled Activities

To view scheduled activities for this subsystem:

1.Click the Subsystem icon Tree View.

2.Click the Scheduler tab in Management View.

Scheduling an Activity

To set a scheduled activity for this subsystem:

1.Click the Subsystem icon Tree View.

2.From the dropdown menu on the Scheduler tab, choose an item:

Media Patrol

Redundancy Check

Battery Reconditioning

Spare Drive Check

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Meridian Data 1 manual Running Background Activities, Running Media Patrol, Running PDM, Viewing Scheduled Activities