International Business Machines Corporation

Anuraag Shah

Praveen Viraraghavan

Adam Michael Gray

Bruno Hennig Cabral

Tyler K Reid

David Brittain Bolen

Peter C Kim

Sridhar Gopalam

Fnu Manupriya

Systems and methods for managing conflicting background tasks in a dispersed storage network are provided. In embodiments, a method includes: gathering scheduled future task data for scheduled future tasks from a plurality of task scheduling modules within a dispersed storage network, wherein the scheduled future tasks are tasks associated with stored data objects; monitoring the scheduled future task data for scheduling conflicts based on stored rules; determining that a scheduling conflict exists between a first future task of the scheduled future tasks and a second future task of the scheduled future tasks; issuing instructions to at least one of the plurality of task scheduling modules to update the first future task or the second future task based on the scheduling conflict; and updating, by the at least one of the plurality of task scheduling modules, the first future task or the second future task based on the instructions.

Managing dispersed storage network background tasks

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Anuraag Shah