DSpace server out of space

[Jeff Mitchell]

We found out that we're running out of space on our server but what I found is that the /srv/dspace/log directory has logs in there for over 4 years.

Can I delete them or are they important to keep?

Thanks,

[george veranis]

Yes you can 

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[Abel Gómez]

Hi Jeff,

you may find this thread useful:

https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-tech/c/lRr1Nj6TLd8/m/ExUdpzXbAwAJ

In short:

Only the latest log is used by DSpace at a given time (note: versions of DSpace released last week also use a different log for CLI commands).

You can also change the configuration so that DSpace compresses and rotates the log files automatically to avoid this problem in the future.

Abel

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On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 08:05:56PM +0000, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
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> We found out that we're running out of space on our server but what I found is that the /srv/dspace/log directory has logs in there for over 4 years.
>
> Can I delete them or are they important to keep?

Yes, you can delete them. Yes, they can be important to keep.

I just finished recovering six months of usage statistics from our
dspace.log files, after a configuration change caused DSpace to stop
recording usage in Solr. So I'm glad that I saved those logs.

DSpace won't care if you delete old logs. If you do keep them for
some reason, you don't have to keep them on the same volume, or online
at all. You only have to keep them as long as they have some value to
you.

Like other business records, you should think about how you would use
them, then create a well-reasoned retention policy and a regular
procedure for destroying them when the policy requires it.

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