When a Maintenance Plan is created, two steps are made. Why does the maintenance plan required two steps? The first performs the database backup job. What is the purpose of the second step?
Product design
The second step is purely used by LiteSpeed to identify it as a LiteSpeed created job. It is a service job step that contains only encrypted LiteSpeed data such as which databases are included into the plan, whether backup is LiteSpeed or native. This information is necessary for LiteSpeed Console.
It is not a step that gets executed and simply has some data in it that the GUI parses.
