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Deleting IIS logs in C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1

Hi all,

We currently have a system drive that is approaching capacity very rapidly. The space is being used by IIS log files being created in the following directory:
C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1

Is there anyway to safely delete these logs and then prevent this from reoccurring?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Texal

Lee W, MVP

Yes, delete them. Done. Of course, I'd recommend MOVING them instead to another partition or to a CD or something.

You can also change the location of where IIS stores it log data by opening up the Internet Information Services MMC control panel. Then right clicking on your default web site, and on the Web Site Tab, click the Properties button in the "Enable Logging" section. In the window that appears, provide a new path for the log files.

meverest

you can delete or rotate logs using a simple batch script, put it somewhere handy like c:\batch\ or such:

---------START contents rotate.bat----------
del C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\7
rmdir C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\7
rename C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\6 7
rename C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\5 6
rename C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\4 5
rename C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\3 4
rename C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\2 3
rename C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\1 2
mkdir C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\1
move C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\*.log C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\1
---------END contents rotate.bat----------

then set it up to run daily (or weekly or monthly or whatever):

at 01:30:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su c:\batch\rotate.bat

you can easily change the number of subdirectories to how many you want to keep.

cheers.

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meverest

sure, i tend to agree with leew.

unless they are massive (ie several gigs a day) then i, too, think that keeping them is a good idea.

Jonathan Raper

Any way to change where these are stored by defauilt?

woohah

Also, if space is a concern, install Winrar and zip them up. That is what we do for archiving purposes. We zip them into individual files and then delete the original. Very simple to do and the compression is VERY NICE! (Borat voice)