What is the impact of not keeping Moodle log files for more than 3 months?

What is the impact of not keeping Moodle log files for more than 3 months?

by Heather P -
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Hello

We have a Moodle 2.7 on Ubuntu and a MySQL server on Windows.

The overnight dump file of the database seems to be doubling in size the last two nights and now it is more than 4 gig in size. We expected an increase when the students came back in, but now I'm worried it might continue at this rate. It is a brand new database for this academic year.

If I cull the logs after three months can I still pull meaningful statistics from it for a full academic year?

I realise I won't be able to access the actual logs to see who was logged on when, and I'm not entirely sure how much I would need to be able to do that.

Is there anything else that the log files impact on that I may have failed to notice and would probably only notice when some sort of disaster  befell?

Thank you

Heather

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