[WEB4LIB] HTTP access and error logs

[Edward Spodick, HKUST Library, 2358-6743]

Well, we still have all of ours going back to May 1995.  At first I planned to trash them after 'x' years, depending on our records management protocols.  But they are still useful for log analysis and historical study - especially with the improvements in analysis software.  As to space, that is not a big problem, and some analyzers (such as Analog) are able to process them in gzipped format.

-Edward Spodick, Systems Librarian
Hong Kong university of Science & Technology


At 2:50 PM -0700 10/4/00, John Creech wrote: 
>Hi Web folks - For those dealing with them, how long do folks hold onto
>their web server http access and error logs?  Any kinds of archival plans? 
>Months? Years?  Whatever?  Thanks. 
>
>John Creech
>Electronic Resources & Systems Librarian
>Central Washington University Library 
>400 E. 8th Ave. | Ellensburg, WA 98926 | 
>office - 509-963-1081 || fax - 509-963-3684
>creechj at www.lib.cwu.edu