Job Overview | Teradata Data Mover - Data Mover Jobs - Teradata Data Mover

A Data Mover job consists of the following:

• A user-provided definition of database objects that Data Mover copies from the source to the target, such as a copy of a table from the PROD1 Vantage system to the DEV1 Vantage system.
• A programmatically-generated plan of sequential and parallel tasks to optimize job execution, such as distributing job execution into tasks across several servers.

A job is useful for the following tasks:

• Copying database objects.
• Copying one or more tables from an existing Vantage system to a backup Vantage system, where data in both systems stays synchronized.
• Copying data from a production Vantage system to a staging or test Vantage system.
• Migrating data regularly in one direction from the original to a backup.

When creating a job, you select source and target databases and specify the source database objects to copy. You can also refine the job definition to control performance, logging, and other factors. The jobs continue to exist after being run, including job definition and history, whether successful or not. You can delete these jobs if they are no longer needed.