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[EP-tech] Re: RFC access log table

IRStats builds summary tables, so it doesn't need the data once the
processing has been run.

But ... unless you are really tight on space I would always keep the
original data. If you have Apache logs you could reverse-engineer them into
the access-log equivalent (URL matching).

/Tim.

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:59:15 +0100, Yuri <yurj@alfa.it> wrote:
> Great! 5,9 GB freed :-)
> 
> IRStats use them once or they need them always?
> 
> Il 15/02/2013 10:32, Tim Brody ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yes, there is nothing in the core that relies on data in access*. The
>> IRStats 1&  2 use access to create their summary data.
>>
>> It looks like the best solution is to provide a tool to periodically
dump
>> historic access data to files, but that it is still useful to keep
>> "current" (defined by config) data in the database.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Tim.
>>
>> On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:13:52 +0100, Yuri<yurj@alfa.it>  wrote:
>>> We've a test server which is a clone of the production server. Can I
>>> empty those access tables safely to save space? :) can I do an "delete
*
>>> from access" without any issue? The same for access__ordervalues_en and
>>> all the languages?
>>>
>>> Il 15/02/2013 03:13, Mark Gregson ha scritto:
>>>> Hi Tim
>>>>
>>>> Because of the DB backup issues we invested some time a while ago in
>> some
>>>> scripts for archiving the access data off to monthly dumps and for
>>>> restoring it (if required, say be the need to have IRStats reprocess
>>>> all
>>>> data). These scripts are not actually in production use because I
>> haven't
>>>> had time to test it to my satisfaction (sorry Nick!).
>>>>
>>>> CSV is a more accessible format than a MySQL dump, which may be a
>>>> benefit.
>>>>
>>>> We are using IRStats for statistics which uses the access table but I
>>>> guess this will be easily updated with a new parser. We also do some
>>>> custom logging to the access table for reporting on outbound link
>>>> clicks
>>>> via IRStats.  This logging is handled via EPrints::Apache::LogHandler.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>>> [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tim Brody
>>>> Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 8:01 PM
>>>> To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>>> Subject: [EP-tech] RFC access log table
>>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking about the access log table and how it can be made
>>>> sustainable.
>>>>
>>>> What I'm suggesting is to write accesses to CSV-formatted log files,
>>>> one
>>>> file per month. What I don't know is whether anyone is relying on the
>>>> database table for generating statistics?
>>>>
>>>> The problem the access log table creates is in backing-up the EPrints
>>>> database.
>>>>
>>>> I'd appreciate any thoughts/comments.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Tim
>>>>
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-- 
All the best,
Tim.