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Run a Manual or On-demand Merge Job

As a storage administrator, you can run an on-demand merge job, and specify the number of recovery points to retain. The values can be different than the Plan settings. The merge job deletes the selected backup sessions from a data store to free up the space and effectively manages your storage space. You can select multiple nodes and run the on-demand merge job.

Note: For merge job, when a replication task is configured and you run an on-demand merge job from the source data store, the job does not check whether the sessions are replicated or not. As a result, the merged sessions cannot be replicated to target data store and you end up replicating more data. For example, consider there are five sessions, s1, s2, s3, s4, and s5 respectively. s1 and s2 are replicated. Now, you run an on-demand merge job on the source side and retain two session. s4 and s5 are retained. s4 is a full session. So, when the next replication job starts, the job needs to replicate a full session.

Follow these steps:

1. From the Console, click the resources tab.
2. From the left pane, navigate to Destinations and click Recovery Point Servers.
3. From the center pane, click the data store that contains the node data that you want to merge.

   The Recovery Points Summary page is displayed.

4. Select the node that you want to merge.
5. Click Actions, Merge Now.

   Note: To merge multiple nodes from a data store, press the Ctrl or Shift key and select the nodes, then click Action, Merge Now.

   The Run a Merge Now dialog is opened

6. Specify the number of recovery points that you want to retain and click OK.

   The on demand merge job is initiated and the node data is deleted from the data source. You can see the status of merge job from Recent Events and logs.