Admire,
Yeah, that should be safe. I have this in a root cron job on our DSpace
server:
find /home/dspace/log/ ! -iname "*.gz" -daystart -mtime +1 -size
+50M -exec gzip {} \;
It runs at night when the load is low on the server. It finds any file
in our DSpace log folder which is older than 1 day, over 50 megabytes,
and isn't already zipped and gzips it.
A note of caution, though: we had a problem with our stats the other day
and I went to unzip the logs so I could re-run the stats scripts... I
had 25 gigs free and we ran out of disk space during the unzipping.
Crazy! So, while it's useful to keep the logs around, it's not exactly
easy to just reuse them!
Hope that helps,
Alan
On 11/08/2011 11:52 AM, amutsikiwa wrote:
Thanks. I managed to make a copy of cocoon.log , checker.log and
handle-plugin.log and managed to recover 2GB. Now I am wondering
of the dspace.log.2010-12-21 and dspace.log.2010-12-21.solr which
one are necessary for computation of access statistics.
*From:*Peter Dietz [mailto:pdiet...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Monday, November 07, 2011 7:27 PM
*To:* amutsikiwa
*Cc:* dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace Logs
Hi Admire,
There is interesting information that lives in old logs. You could in
the future build something to count how many queries have been
performed on your system, see how popular your RSS feeds are, look at
errors users encounter, etc.
So, if your concerned with space and backup time, you could either
move your old logs off of your production server, and move them to
another server that works more as an "archive". Or.. you could just
tar/zip up some old logs to compress them which will save a massive
amount of space. So that when you need the logs in the future, you can
just extract them.
The dspace.log logs are important. Cocoon.log is not important.
I wouldn't recommend altering the contents of dspace.log, but if
you've had debug mode on for an extended period of time, you might
want to remove debug entries.
Peter Dietz
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:03 AM, amutsikiwa <amutsik...@uzlib.uz.ac.zw
<mailto:amutsik...@uzlib.uz.ac.zw>> wrote:
Hi
I have been running dspace for a while. Now my dspace directory is
over 13GB in size. My assetstore directory is under 700MB. My dspace
log is the one that is over 9GB. The size is taking a toll on my
backup. I know I have to preserve the logs in the interest of access
statistics. But I believe not all the log entries contribute to
access statistics. So I am wondering which log entries can I delete
from the log directory?
Kind Regards,
Admire Mutsikiwa
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Library IT
University of Zimbabwe
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