Configuring Recycling for Disk Archive Volumes

If you are archiving to disk, you must edit the archiver.cmd file to recycle.

If you are recycling by archive set, you must add archive set recycling directives between the params and endparams directives.

If you are recycling by library, this step is optional.

Editing the `archiver.cmd` File

To edit the archiver.cmd file, follow the steps described in About the archiver.cmd File.

As an alternative, you can edit the archiver.cmd file by using the File System Manager. For more information, see the File System Manager online help.

The following table shows the archive set recycling directives that you can use.

Table 16-3 Archive Set Recycling Directives

Directive	Function
`-recycle_dataquantity` size	Limits the amount of data the recycler schedules for re-archiving to clear a disk volume of useful data. By default, a limit is ignored for disk archive recycling.
`-recycle_ignore`	Prevents the archive set from being recycled.
`-recycle_mailaddr` mail-address	Sends recycler messages to the specified email address.
`-recycle_mingain` percent	Limits recycling of volumes in the archive set by setting the `mingain` mark for a disk volume. The `mingain` is expressed as a percentage of the expired data associated with the volume. When the expired data of the volume exceeds the `mingain` percentage, the recycler begins to recycle the volume. The default is 50%.
`-recycle_minobs` percent	Limits the recycler's selection of tar files in volume by setting a threshold for the recycler's rearchiving process of disk archive volumes. When the percentage of expired files within an archived tar file on the disk reaches this threshold, the recycler begins moving the current files from the archive into a new tar file. Once all the current files have been moved, the original tar file is marked as a candidate to be removed from the disk archive. The default is 50%.
`-rearch_stage_copy` copy-number	Sets staging for re-archiving to take place from selected (faster) copies.

For more information about archiver directives, see Chapter 10, Configuring the Archiver or the archiver.cmd(4) man page.

Recycler Logging for Disk Archives

Example 16-5 Recycler Log File for Disk Archive Files

---Archives---   -----Percent-----
 ----Status-----    Count    Bytes   Use Obsolete Free   Library:Type:VSN
new candidate          0      0        0    41     59  none:dk:disk01
677 files recycled from VSN disk01 (mars:/sam4/copy1)
0 directories recycled from VSN disk01 (mars:/sam4/copy1)

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