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Sun Storage Archive Manager 5.3 Configuration and Administration Guide     Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager 5.3 Information Library
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Preface

1.  About SAM-QFS

2.  Configuring Storage Devices for Archiving

3.  Performing Additional SAM-QFS Configuration

4.  Creating Parameters Files for Network-Attached Automated Libraries

5.  Checking the Drive Order in Libraries

6.  Populating the Catalog

7.  Managing Automated Libraries and Manually Loaded Drives

8.  Managing Vendor-Specific Libraries

9.  About Archiving

10.  Configuring the Archiver

11.  Archive Directives (archiver.cmd)

12.  Archive Set Directives (archiver.cmd)

13.  Data Integrity Validation in SAM-QFS

14.  About Releasing

Releaser Process

Releaser Concepts

Age

Candidate

Priority

Weight

Partial Release

About Partial Releasing and Partial Staging

Summary of System Administrator Options

Summary of User Options

15.  Configuring the Stager

16.  Configuring the Recycler

17.  Advanced SAM-QFS Topics

18.  Using the Sun SAM-Remote Software

Chapter 14

About Releasing

This chapter describes the releasing process and releaser operations.

Releasing is the process by which the releaser makes disk cache space available by identifying archived files and releasing their disk cache copy. This action makes room for other files to be created or staged from archive media. The releaser can release only archived files. A released file has no data on the disk cache.

The Sun Storage Archive Manager (SAM) software invokes the releaser process when a site-specified disk threshold is reached. As an alternative, you can use the release command to release a file's disk space immediately or to set releasing parameters for a file.

You can also specify that files are released immediately after archiving, that files are never released, or that files are partially released.