# Background Operations Support

The LSI Storage Authority software provides background Pause, Resume, Abort, Pause All, Resume All, and Abort All features that enhance the functionality where the background operations running on a physical drive or a virtual drive can be paused for some time, and resumed later.

The background operations, including Consistency Check, Rebuild, Replace, and Initialization, are supported by an Abort operation. If any operation is stopped before completion, it is considered to be aborted. An aborted operation cannot be resumed from the place where it was stopped.

To perform Pause, Resume, and Abort operations, go to the Background Processes in Progress window in the Server dashboard or the Controller dashboard, and perform the steps that follow. The Background Processes in Progress window is shown in the figure that follows.
Figure 1. Background Processes in Progress Window

- Pause – Click Pause to suspend the background operation taking place at that particular point of time.

  When the operation is paused, the Resume option appears instead of the Pause option.

- Resume – Click Resume to resume the operation from the point of its last suspension.
- Abort – Click Abort to abort the ongoing active operation.

- Pause All – Click Pause All to suspend all active operations.

  This option is enabled only if one or more background operations are in active state.

- Resume All – Click Resume All to resume all the paused operations from the point they were paused.

  This option is disabled if no operations are paused.

- Abort All – Click Abort All to abort all the active operations.

While refreshing the LSA Client or the LSA GUI, if there is any delay such as the Copyback progress bar not displaying the progress of the Copyback operation or the Copyback progress bar itself not getting displayed for small-size volumes, set the maximum event grouping time gap to `0` in the `LSA.conf` file to see the real-time events.For more information on setting up LSA retrieve real-time events, see Configuring LSA on Gateway Servers to Get Real-Time Events.

Note that setting real-time events has an impact on the performance of LSA.