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Administering the Backup Server › Configure Arcserve Backup Engines › Tape Engine Configuration › Circular Logging › Specify Circular Logging Settings

Specify Circular Logging Settings

Circular Logging lets you customize the characteristics of log files generated by the Tape Engine.

To specify Circular Logging settings

  1. From the Arcserve Backup Home Page, click the Quick Start menu and select Server Admin.

    The Arcserve Backup Server Admin dialog opens.

  2. From the Admin menu, select Configuration.

    The Configuration dialog opens.

  3. Click the Tape Engine tab.
  4. To enable Circular logging, click the Limit Log Size By option in the Limit Log Size section of this dialog, and then specify then maximum size in MB. This amount represents the maximum size of all log files.
  5. In the Log File Count field, select the number of log files that you want Arcserve Backup to retain. This amount represents the maximum number of TAPE.LOG files that Arcserve Backup will retain.
  6. Click OK to apply the settings.

    Note: After the log file count exceeds the number specified using the Log File Count option, Arcserve Backup deletes the oldest log files.

Prune Log Files

To specify log file pruning only:

  1. Disable the Limit Log Size By option.
  2. Click the Prune Logs Older Than option and specify the number of days that you want to elapse before Arcserve Backup prunes log files.
  3. (Optional) In the Single Log File Size field, enter a size in KB to specify a size limit for a single log file. If you do not specify a value in the Single Log File Size field, Arcserve Backup uses the default value, 10000 KB, as the size limitation for each single log file.
  4. Click OK to apply the settings.

Important! If you enable both Limit Log Size options (Limit Log Size By and Prune Logs Older Than), Arcserve Backup prunes log files if either the total number of log files exceeds the Log File Count, or the date of the log files exceeds the number of days specified under the Prune Log Files Older Than option. You cannot specify a Single Log File Size—Arcserve Backup uses the formula Total Log Size divided by Log File Count to calculate the Log File Size setting.