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Scheduled pause in jobs

Feature availability

Available in: Resilio Active Everywhere custom build 4.1.10018 MC and 4.1.3.10018 Agents
Available for: all types of jobs, but not Script job. Agents v4.1.3.10018.

You can configure the intervals during which the Agents in the job will be paused.

For Synchronization, File Cache, and Hybrid work jobs, this configuration is available under the "Settings" tab. For Distribution, Consolidation jobs, it can be found in the "Job scheduler" tab.

Several rules are supported. Each timeframe applies to the local Agent's time, so be aware if the MC server and the Agents are in different time zones. Agents of older versions that v4.1.3.10018 won't honor this pause rule.

While the job is active, the job run will report the status as "paused by job schedule," and the Agents within the job run will display the time until they are paused. The time shown in the statuses is updated to match the local browser's time in the WebUI.

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This pause feature is also supported for High Availability groups. The group leader will report the corresponding status.

Limitations and peculiarities

Daylight saving time changes should be taken into account. If the pause is scheduled to start or end during a time shift, it will either be skipped or extended accordingly.

For example:

  • If a pause is set from 02:00 to 04:00, and the clocks move forward from 01:00 to 03:00, the pause will be applied and will last for one hour.
  • If a pause is set from 02:00 to 03:00, it will be skipped for that week's iteration.