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Sophos server C: drive free space issue

RogueViper

Morning all,

We are running into a few issues with the our Sophos server with running out of disk space on the C: drive. The capacity of the C drive is 40GB. Recently we turned on an additional data control policy to log all uploads to the web to monitor and help detect data leakage/theft. This may be a coincidence, but I guess by doing this it will create more logs and database tables etc. The update manager is no longer updating. 

Since then the C: drive on this particular server has been running of space faster. There 313 managed hosts, the server is dedicated, has 4GB of RAM, Xeon 2.8GHz x 2 running Windows Server 2008. What I did find is that there are 9.82GB worth of logs under C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1 \ which appear to relate to the Sophos web updates (oldest being 30/7/2010); grandually growing in size to approx 20-60MB per day in the last year). 

Can anyone recommend a solution to help manage space used by the SEC 4.5 and whether any of these logs can be deleted? If need be then we will have to disable this partiuclar data control policy. 

Many thanks,

Mike 

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    Hello Mike,

    the logs under W3SVC1 contain likely the clients' updates download activity and are usually not worth keeping for longer than a few days at most.
    40GB should be sufficient, I have a server with less than that, several subscriptions and more than 10 times clients. Additional events will increase the database size (Express or full SQL?) but shouldn't eat up that much space in a short time. The management logs are usually limited and shouldn't grow beyond a certain value.

    Christian
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    Hello Mike,

    the logs under W3SVC1 contain likely the clients' updates download activity and are usually not worth keeping for longer than a few days at most.
    40GB should be sufficient, I have a server with less than that, several subscriptions and more than 10 times clients. Additional events will increase the database size (Express or full SQL?) but shouldn't eat up that much space in a short time. The management logs are usually limited and shouldn't grow beyond a certain value.

    Christian
    :20333
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