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After Ive imported all my log files into the ppstats database, can I delete them to save space?

April 26, 2017database delete files imported log

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After Ive imported all my log files into the ppstats database, can I delete them to save space?

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We do not recommend deleting or modifying your original proxy log files in any way. Personal Proxy Statistics actually depends on having constant access to your entire history of log files, even after they have been imported into the database. Modifying your log files is not recommended either, because this will certainly have a side effect on how ppstats generates statistics. The recommended procedure for handling your growing proxy log files is compression. Utilities like gzip do an excellent job of compressing proxy log files to be up to ten times smaller than the original size. Personal Proxy Statistics has built in support for gzip files as well. If you use compression, feel free to gzip all proxy log files except for todays log file, which is still in use by the proxy server itself.