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On Dec 27, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Bill Verity wrote:
>> On 12/27/2006 11:06, Nathan Brindle wrote:
>>> I've never been a fan of no-archive lists, so it's a blind spot
>>> for me.
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> Our default is to keep archives for two months. For class related
> lists, we keep them for four months which covers a semester. We
> like to have logs to help diagnose problems. We've started adding a
> Notebook-Header= Full to provide additional information to track
> problems.
>
> We run a job every Saturday evening that purges old archive files.
> We keep a separate file, read by the Saturday job, that has a list
> of retention periods. Some lists we just keep a week. Others are
> kept forever. A few have explicitly asked for no archives at all.
> --
> When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
We keep logs until we need disk space. So far, on our current Linux
box, I have never run low on disk space in the three years its been
deployed. Instructors are free to clear out their class-related
lists' logs if they want.
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