Manually Running the Retention Process
After initializing the VPG, Zerto periodically checks that the schedule to run a retention process has not passed. At the scheduled retention process time, the job is run and the retention set is stored in the specified Repository.
At any time, you can decide that you need to run the retention process, without waiting for the scheduled time. Use the following procedure to do this.
To manually run the retention process:
1. In the Zerto User Interface, click one of the following tabs: VPGs / VMs / RETENTION STATUS.
2. Select one or more VPGs for the retention process, and click MORE > Run retention process.
3. Click OK. The retention process starts.
■ You can monitor the progress in the RETENTION STATUS tab and the TASKS pane.
■ During the retention process you cannot perform operations on the VPG without first aborting the job.
■ If you start a live failover during the retention process, you are then prompted to abort the retention process job.
■ Scheduled retention process runs for the VPG are skipped, until the manual retention process run ends.