[thelist] IIS web logs - can they be compressed on the fly?

Joshua Olson joshua at waetech.com
Wed Oct 26 10:34:21 CDT 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rees
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:25 AM
> 
> > We have a managed web server that has approx. 4GB of raw 
> web logs - can
> > these be compressed somehow?
> 
> 
> Are you writing out the logs to daily files, or is it one huge log?
> 
> If the former, you could zip them up to save space.

Alternately, and depending on the version of Windows you are running, you
can enable Compression on the folder in which the logs reside.  You can
expect to get about a 60% reduction in size.

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