About Background Tasks

Background tasks are maintenance tasks that help maintain the integrity of your drives and data. These tasks include

Initialization of new units
Rebuilds when units have become degraded
Unit verification
Migration of an on-line RAID from one RAID configuration to another
Self-tests

This section describes each of these background tasks and how they work. Related sections include:

About Initialization
Auto Initialization After Power Failure
About Rebuilds
About Migration
About Verification
About Self-tests
Scheduling Background Tasks
Rebuilding Units
Verifying Units

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