>From my POV, it comes down to money plus any "legal requirements."
Since you're asking other's opinions on it, I'll assume you are not required by law to keep logs for any particular reason for time period. If true, then it really comes down to how much money you are willing to spend to keep logs for X period. Large format tape media is pretty expense for single use "backup and keep" strategies. But you can get hard drives pretty cheap these days -- in my previous life, I had scripts that would take monthly logs, compress them, and copy them over to removable drives. We'd just take the drives out of the USB chassis and store them. I just built a couple of drives a month into the budget -- that way you have copies going back as long as you would like. If I ever needed anything, we'd just drop the drive into the chassis and get what we wanted. If not, then it was already built into the budget. Of course, different environments dictate different things, but it usually comes down to how much a month it would cost to store the logs, and if you are willing to spend it perpetually. t > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Petter Bruland > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Keeping Logs files for how long? > > Over the last few weeks we've gotten a bunch of good advice on what > software/hardware to use, in order to capture logs from all sort of > networked devices. > > One thing we have not really talked about, is how long do we usually > keep logs. And do we ever back them up? > > Any feedback on how you handle the log data, or best practices for > handle log data, would be greatly appreciated. > > > -Petter
