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9 DR Series Appliance Cleaner Best Practices
3 Cleaner adjustments & best practices
Under rare and extreme cases, the DR cleaner may run longer than 7 days. If so, apply the following
cleaner best practices in order when adjusting cleaner runtimes.
 1. If the cleaner is set to run automatically (default setting) schedule the cleaner to run for 40 or
more hours per week.
 2. Schedule the cleaner to run in long durations instead of smaller short durations.
 3. If the cleaner does not finish in 40 hours, schedule cleaning to run in parallel with replication.
 4. If the cleaner does not finish in 40 hours, schedule cleaning to run during low periods where
there is not a full backup load.
See Appendix-C & D for additional details and examples.
3.1 Adjusting the cleaner runtime and schedule
If the value of ‘Last Completion time(s)’ exceeds 7 days, the cleaner needs adjusting with additional
runtime. Begin by scheduling the cleaner to run 40 hours / week during non-peak times. Scheduling can
be applied in both the GUI and CLI.
The following example schedules the cleaner to run 40 hours per week:
1. On the Cleaner Schedule page, click Edit Schedule: