How to cancel a job
Published : April 8, 2005 | Updated : August 17, 2005
You can cancel jobs, such as recoveries, synchronization, shadow copies, or consistency checks. For example, if a recovery is negatively affecting network performance, you can cancel the job and run it again at a later time.
To cancel a job
In DPM Administrator Console, click Monitoring on the navigation bar, and then click the Jobs tab.
Select the job, and then in the Actions pane, and then click Cancel.
In the Data Protection Manager message box that appears, click Yes to confirm that you want to cancel the job.
Note
When you cancel a scheduled job, it is deleted so you cannot retry it. However, if a job fails, or is canceled by DPM, you can select that failed job and use the Retry command to run it again.
When you cancel a scheduled job, only that specific job is canceled, not the other jobs scheduled for the same time. For example, if you cancel a synchronization job at 9:00 A.M. on a Tuesday, the 9:00 A.M. synchronization job still occurs, as scheduled, on all subsequent days including the following Tuesday.
Sometimes, when you cancel a job, the job completes before it can be canceled. This happens when you cancel a job that completes quickly or one that is already near completion.