How to Reschedule a Maintenance Job

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

You can set the schedules for maintenance jobs to be carried out on the DPM server only by using DPM Management Shell.

To schedule a maintenance job

Use the following syntax to retrieve the current schedule for maintenance jobs to run on a DPM server:

Get-MaintenanceJobStartTime [-DPMServerName] <String> [-MaintenanceJob] <HouseKeepingJobs> [-Verbose] [-Debug] [-ErrorAction <ActionPreference> ] [-ErrorVariable <String> ] [-OutVariable <String> ] [-OutBuffer <Int32> ]
Use the following syntax to set the schedule for maintenance jobs to run on a DPM server:

Set-MaintenanceJobStartTime [-DPMServerName] <String> [-MaintenanceJob] <HouseKeepingJobs> [[-StartTime] <DateTime> ] [-Verbose] [-Debug] [-ErrorAction <ActionPreference> ] [-ErrorVariable <String> ] [-OutVariable <String> ] [-OutBuffer <Int32> ]
Use the following syntax to remove the schedule for maintenance jobs to run on a DPM server:

Set-MaintenanceJobStartTime [-DPMServerName] <String> [-MaintenanceJob] <HouseKeepingJobs> [-Remove] [-Verbose] [-Debug] [-ErrorAction <ActionPreference> ] [-ErrorVariable <String> ] [-OutVariable <String> ] [-OutBuffer <Int32> ]

For more information, type "Get-Help Set-MaintenanceJobStartTime -detailed" in DPM Management Shell.

For technical information, type "Get-Help Set-MaintenanceJobStartTime -full" in DPM Management Shell.