How scheduled services work

The protection, content verification, scavenging, compression, duplicate elimination, disposition, garbage collection, and storage tiering services each examine objects one at a time, determine whether any action needs to be taken with the object, and if so, take the appropriate action. The services, except for scavenging, start with the primary metadata and use that to find the object data. The scavenging service starts with the secondary metadata, which is stored with the object data.

If the HCP system does not include any spindown storage, the services look at the object data for each object regardless of which node the data is stored on.

If the HCP system does include spindown storage, on most days, all scheduled services except duplicate elimination look at the object data on only a subset of the nodes in the system, each day looking at the data on a different set of nodes. This prevents spindown volumes that are spun down from being spun up frequently or for long periods of time. Periodically, however, to address cases where the data for an object spans nodes in different sets, the services don’t restrict the nodes they look at on one day.

The duplicate elimination service always looks at object data regardless of which node the data is stored on because the service needs to correlate data from all locations. This can result in all spindown volumes being spun up at the same time. You should keep this in mind when scheduling the duplicate elimination service.

The length of time required for a service to examine every object in the repository depends on several factors, including the number of objects in the repository, for how much time the service is scheduled to run each week, and the performance level at which the service runs.

If the HCP system includes spindown storage, services scheduled to run on only one day a week take a minimum of three to five weeks to examine all objects, depending on the number of nodes in the system. You can shorten this time by scheduling the services to run on more than one day a week.

Note: Services may examine some objects twice during a run. Rarely, this can result in the reported number of objects examined being larger than the number of objects in the repository. If an irreparable object is examined twice by the protection or content verification service, that object is counted twice in the reported number of violations found.

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