Re: [Summary-Talk] Multiple Log File Locations?

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/9/04 6:05 PM Lyn (lyn@nowdata.com) wrote:

>We use Summary to process over 6gig of log files each night. The web 
>logs go back 4 years and the users LOVE the ability to look back at 
>all of the previous history!
>
>Problem is, we are running out of disk space.

Are you compressing the logs? You can save a dramatic amount of disk 
space if you compress your logs. BZip2 compression slows things down a 
bit, but it achieves much better compression than the other two (GZip and 
Zip).

>QUESTION: Can Summary look at more than one source when updating 
>data/creating reports? I would like to push some of the logs off to a 
>different volume, DVD, or whatever and still use the primary log 
>directory as currently configured to receive the FTP incoming files.

Yes, as long as that place is somewhere that can be mounted as an active 
file system. You can put shortcuts (Windows), aliases (Macintosh), or 
symbolic links (Linux, Sun, OSX) in Summary's Logs folder that point to 
log files in a different place and Summary will read the logs.

Good Luck
Jason

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