Best practice is to segregate Deduplication and Garbage Collection away from your scheduled backup windows. Also, Dedupe and GC should be segregated away from one another as well. Both processes can be extremely resource intensive, so the segregation can help each finish without encountering as much resource contention.
Here are examples of a few commands to remove the old SmartDisk dedupe & garbage collection scheduling entries, the re-add custom ones instead, which should help you view your current Dedupe and GC schedules, then customize your schedules to best suit your environment.
To see all current configuration entries: smartdisk.bat config --show
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CURRENT GARBAGE COLLECTION & DEDUPLICATION SCHEDULES:
[Deduplication:GC]
Window = 13:00, 19:00, Thu
Window = 13:00, 19:00, Wed
Window = 13:00, 19:00, Tue
Window = 13:00, 19:00, Mon
[Deduplication:Schedule]
Window = Anytime
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COMMANDS TO IMPLEMENT NEW GARBAGE COLLECTION & DEDUPE SCHEDULES:
smartdisk config --delete --gc-window Mon-13:00-19:00
smartdisk config --delete --gc-window Tue-13:00-19:00
smartdisk config --delete --gc-window Wed-13:00-19:00
smartdisk config --delete --gc-window Thu-13:00-19:00
smartdisk config --add --gc-window Sat-14:00-17:00
smartdisk config --delete --dedupe-window Anytime
smartdisk config --add --dedupe-window Sun-13:00-14:00
smartdisk config --add --dedupe-window Mon-13:00-14:00
smartdisk config --add --dedupe-window Tue-13:00-14:00
smartdisk config --add --dedupe-window Wed-13:00-14:00
smartdisk config --add --dedupe-window Thu-13:00-14:00
smartdisk config --add --dedupe-window Fri-13:00-14:00
