About the Recycler

The recycler is a component of the Sun SAM software that prevents you from overextending the archive disk volumes or removable media in your environment. It does this by freeing up space on volumes that contain expired archive copies.

As users modify files on archiving file systems, archive copies associated with the old versions of these files are considered to be expired on their archive disk volumes or removable media. These copies can be purged from the system to make room for new copies.

The recycler attempts to purge the expired copies first by selecting volumes that are eligible to be recycled and then by recycling the eligible volumes.