Excessively large log file

[fireball]

Hi all,
Just thought I'd share something with all of you. The past week or two Homeseer would lock up and become unresponsive. I would check my logs and there were no error messages and no common events being triggered right before it locked up. I did notice one thing, however, when I tried to open my log file; it would take a long time because I hadn't cleared it out in a year and a half. Every single time something happened on my Homeseer system or I sent an X10 command through any number of devices for the past 18 months was in there and would take a while to even come up.
To make a long story short, I renamed my ah.log file and had HS recreate it. Ever since I did that, I've not had a single problem with my system.
Hopefully this might be able to help someone else out who may be having the same problem.

[RAM]

I save and make a new one every night

As part of my file backup routine, at midnight I save the ah.log file to a backup directory. During that backup I rename it so it has the days date as part of the filename. Then I delete ah.log from the Homeseer directory and Homeseer creates a new one the first time it needs to write anything to it.
I save these backup files for several weeks and automatically delete the oldest one as part of the backup routine.

Dick Masson

[goddard99]

Back up

Dick
Could you explain how you set up the back up file. I was recently away and my system went down following a power failure. I wanted to check how long the power was off but the log file only showed the re-boot.
Mike

[Rupp]

Dick,
Did you write your own backup scripts to do this?

I should add that option to the backup program I recently posted.

[Gogs]

As part of my file backup routine, at midnight I save the ah.log file to a backup directory. During that backup I rename it so it has the days date as part of the filename...............

Hi, yes how are you doing this, are you using a Bat file or script or what?

[firtha]

Someone created a script for this; if it's not in the scripts forum, it's attached. I may have customized it a bit for my own use; I don't remember, and I didn't make a note of any changes

Create an event to run this at 23:59 every day, and create the folder 'Oldlogs' in the HomeSeer folder.

[RAM]

My log file handling

I do my log file handling with 2 scripts, the first one creates a backup with a filename like '010205.log'. Then another one rotates out the oldest one (21 days old in my case).
Attached are the 2 scripts. I hope this helps.

Dick Masson

[Gogs]

Thanks, Firtha and Dick,

I will have a look at them in the morning and test them.

They are a great idea.