[Web4lib] access and error logs

[Cary Gordon]

Absent any institutional retention policy or legal requirements, I  
think that there is little upside in keeping logs any longer than  
necessary;. We generally keep logs for two weeks, which is plenty of  
time to mine them for statistical information and to address any  
technical issues.

Your mileage may differ.

Cary Gordon, MLS
The Cherry Hill Company
http://www.chillco.com



On Feb 29, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Sutherland, Michael wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I was looking for information on typical procedure for holding onto
> access and error logs for a web server and searched the web4lib  
> archive.
> According to those posts from April of 2000, it looked as though
> respondents held onto those for quite some time (at least 5 years).   
> I'm
> wondering if that is still common practice to archive these logs? What
> is 'typical', if you will, practice for web server administrators to  
> do
> with those logs and is there any documentation for that practice? I'm
> sure it's different for each library depending on your record  
> management
> protocols, but I'm curious about common procedure for keeping this
> information.
>
> Thank you for your time and consideration,
> Michael
>
> -------------------------------------
> Michael Sutherland
> Web Services Librarian
> Montana State University Libraries
> P.O. Box 173320
> Bozeman, MT, USA 59717-3320
> Ph: (406) 994-6429
> msutherland at montana.edu
>
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