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3. Click Apply. The task will start according to the specified time.

To cancel hard disk cloning, do the following:

1. Select the task(s) and click Stop to abort disk cloning. A confirmation

prompt displays. Click Confirm to cancel the cloning task.

The target disk will become an unused disk. If there is a degraded disk
group and auto-spare option is on, the target disk will be used for
rebuilding.

2.7.9 Scrubbing

This feature supports parity check and recovery for disk groups, logical
disks, and hard disks. Bad sectors will be reported when detected.

To perform disk scrubbing on a disk group, do the following:

1. Select Maintenance Utilities > Scrubbing from the main menu.

2. Click Scrub and specify the following options for a disk scrubbing task.

Note

1. If there is disk scrubbing task or parity regeneration task in the

disk group of the source disk, the task is aborted and cloning is
started.

2. If the disk group of the source disk contains faulty disks, cloning is

suspended until the disk group completely rebuilds its disks.

Target Type

Select either HDD or DG as the scrubbing disk type.

HDD: Specify an HDD ID for scrubbing.

DG: Specify a DG ID and an LD ID/All LDs for
scrubbing.

Parity Check

This option is only available for parity-based RAID
level LDs.

None: No parity check is performed.

Check Only: The controller checks the parity for
logical disks.

Regenerate: Any parity inconsistency detected is
regenerated by the controller.

Schedule

Immediately: The task will start immediately.

Once: The task will start on the specified date and
time.

Weekly: The task will start on the specified day and
time every week.

Monthly: The task will start on the specified date
and time every month.

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