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Before configuring the recycler, note the following:
■ Directives in the archiver.cmd file control recycling by archive set. Directives in
the recycler.cmd file control recycling by library. In addition, the
recycler.cmd file controls general recycler behavior. For information on
recycler directives, see “Using Recycling Directives” on page 152.
■ Do not recycle volumes that contain removable media files. You create removable
media files by using the request(1) command. A volume with removable media
files can never be drained.
■ Do not run the recycler while performing maintenance on a Sun StorageTek SAM
file system. The recycler uses the .inodes file and the mcf file to help identify
files that are current or expired and the devices associated with a file system.
Absence of proper information in the .inodes and mcf files can cause current
archived data to appear as expired and be recycled.
■ All Sun StorageTek SAM file systems must be mounted when the recycler is run.
If you are recycling from online disk, the file system that contains the disk
volumes must be mounted and the host system must be accessible.
Caution – Extreme care must be taken when configuring the recycler if you are
using disk archiving in an environment with multiple SAM-QFS servers. The
diskvols.conf file for each SAM-QFS server must point to a unique set of disk
volume resource specifications (disk archiving target directories). If any of these are
shared between different SAM-QFS servers, then running the recycler from one
SAM-QFS server will destroy the disk archive data that is being managed by the
other SAM-QFS server.
The recycler is not enabled by default. You must initiate recycling by entering the
sam-recycler(1M) command.
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