How do you delete/purge the activity log?

[dholbrook]

I have Arcserve 2000 running on a Win2k SQL server that is giving me fits. Some idiot installed the Arcserver on the system partition, and the partition is too small, so Arserver soon fills it up totally. I can clean out (initialize) the database, but I can not find anywhere how to clean out the activity log file in any of my documentation (Yea for Arcserve documentation!!!). When the backup runs into problems, it fills the activity log with thousands of "failed" entries for every file it can not back up. This log is huge, but I can not find the name of the file anywhere to delete it (if that can be done safely), nor can I find any way to purge the old data in the current activity log.

Can anyone help me clean out these logs, and/or tell me how I can force a limit on maximum size allowed for the database without re-installing the application (I inherited this mess, and can not find the license information to do a re-install, so I am stuck with the mess). Is there a way, short of a re-install, to at least force the database onto a different drive?

 

[Cyklops]

Go to the job status manager, then click 'view-preferences'.
In ARCserve 2000 you can adjust the settings for pruning the activity log.

regards

 

[speshalyst]

HI,

Look for a file callde arcserve.log...


cheers
speshalyst So it Shall be Written!
So it Shall be Done!!

 

[dholbrook]

Thanks to all. I have now set the automatic purge to delete all activity logs older than a week, so we will see what happens. In addition, I found I could delete the entire log file (97 MB in size!) and it recreated a new file (I was sneaky, I moved the file first, just in case I had to restore it!). Hope this works. Appreciate all the inputs, now I do not have to scroll through two years of entries! I will learn all the backdoors to Arcserve yet, in spite of their lousy documentation, especially with support like this.

David