Tasks

A long-running activity performed by the system, such as backups, restores, and exports, is called a Task. Tasks can be spawned by schedule (through Jobs linked with resource's protection) or manually through the service API or UI (e.g., restore or export request). Jobs define the execution schedule as well as Task parameters.

Warning

Afi can limit execution of Jobs and throttle creation of new Tasks based on the load. If a Job is already being executed and is triggered again (by schedule or API), no more than a single additional Task will be created later when the previous one is finished.