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Manage Project Jobs

Zilliz Cloud offers an intuitive Jobs page that integrates all historical and asynchronous data tasks within the same project.

View project jobs​

Select a project. In the left navigation pane, choose Jobs. On the displayed page, you can see a list of all asynchronous jobs that are being executed or have been executed.

The following job information is displayed:

  • Type and Description: The purpose and information of the job. There are certain types of job on this page.

    Type

    Explanation

    Backup

    Create a backup file for a cluster

    Create a backup file for a collection or specified colletions

    Copy backups to specified cloud regions

    Restore

    Restore a cluster from a backup file

    Restore a collection or several collections from a backup file

    Export Backup File

    Export a backup file to the specified object storage service

    Migration

    Migrate data to a cluster.

    • External Data Migration:

      • From Milvus

      • From Pinecone

      • From Qdrant

      • From Elasticsearch

      • From OpenSearch

      • From PostgreSQL

      • From Tencent Cloud VectorDB

    • Zilliz Cloud Cross-cluster migration:

      • Cross-cluster migration within the same organization

      • Migration between clusters across organizations

    Import

    Import data to a collection

    Clone Collection

    Make a full copy of the collection with both its schema and data

    Create Sample Collection

    Create a collection loaded with a sample dataset

    Suspend Cluster

    Manually suspend a cluster

    Resume Cluster

    Manually resume a cluster

    Scale Query CU

    Increase or decrease the number of query CUs of a cluster.

    Scale Replica

    Increase or decrease the number of replicas of a cluster.

  • Status: Job status, which can be Successful, In Progress, Pending, Failed, Canceled.

  • ID: The ID of the data job. For any troubles with data jobs, please create a support ticket and provide the relevant Job ID.

  • Start Time & End Time

  • Created By: The user who initiated the data job.

View job details​

To view the details of a job, click ... in the Actions column and then select View Details. Alternatively, you can use the Describe Job API to get the details programmatically.

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Cancel job​

Currently, you can only cancel the following types of jobs that are in the state of Pending or In Progress:

  • Create backup jobs (excluding copy backups to other cloud regions)

  • Migration jobs (excluding zero downtime migration)

  • Export backup file jobs

📘Notes

To cancel a job, you must be an Organization Owner or a Project Admin.

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Retry failed job​

📘Notes

Currently, you can only retry failed import jobs.

To retry a failed job, you must be an Organization Owner or a Project Admin.

For failed import jobs, you can click on the info icon next to its status and check the reason to understand why this job has failed.

If you have made adjustments to the files that are failed to be imported, you can retry the job.

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