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<div class="Heading1"><a name="1144914">Background Tasks</a></div>
<div class="Body"><a name="1172587">Background tasks are maintenance tasks that help maintain the integrity of </a>your drives and data. These tasks include</div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><a name="1172345">Rebuilds when units have become degraded</a></div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><a name="1172346">Migration of units from one configuration to another</a></div>
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<div class="Body"><a name="1585715">3ware RAID management software includes some controls to help you </a>balance completion of these tasks with host I/O responsiveness, so as to minimize any conflict between the two. For example, you can schedule when backgrounds tasks should be run (to avoid peak work hours) and you can specify the rate at which they run in relationship to foreground I/O tasks. You can also set the background task mode to address the issue of latency.</div>
<div class="Body"><a name="1173680">This section includes the following topics related to background tasks:</a></div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><a href="Maintain_Units.7.16.html#1092646" name="1192015">About Initialization</a></div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><a href="Maintain_Units.7.17.html#1080320" name="1192022">About Verification</a></div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><a href="Maintain_Units.7.20.html#1353024" name="1192047">Rebuilding Units</a></div>
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<div class="Bullet_inner"><a href="Maintain_Units.7.21.html#1377899" name="1192051">Cancelling a Rebuild and Restarting It with a Different Drive</a></div>
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<div class="Body"><a name="1192014">Although the migration of a unit is handled as a background task, initiating it </a>is similar to creating a new unit. For details, see <a href="Config_Units.6.16.html#2055961">Changing An Existing Configuration by Migrating</a>.</div>
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