Old log files

[hadus]

Hi, we got to talking about logs files on VBR proxy (and repository) servers.
In this case, we have quite a few proxy servers with very old logs presents (C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup), and we were wondering why they exist.
For the servers I've poked around on, old log files amount to 10-20GB disk usage.

From my understanding it's perfectly fine to delete these logs, but that's a manual task.
Are these logs not supposed to be purged automatically?

[mjr.epicfail]

Hi,

I think you can use the VBR log registry keys for the proxies also. (https://www.veeam.com/kb1825)
But its a valid point...

[hadus]

Hi mjr.epicfail

That certainly seems like a good starting point. The section "Log Files Stored on Windows Component Servers" should have us covered and is something that could be pushed out through domain policies or what not management software.

I am however still a bit surprised that no VBR tasks seems to directly handle this clean up. Like maybe the history retention option?

When we pull logs for a support case VBR seems to be able to find and extract logs just fine, including whichever date range is chosen. So I would think VBR services know perfectly well where the logs are and at least has a basic sense of their date values. I wonder if there something I'm not seeing? Would VBR services not, theoretically at least, be able to use this same date information to delete old logs?

[mjr.epicfail]

Hi Hadus,

You don't have to convince me, I'm on board. lets see of a product owner picks this up