Log files can use a significant amount of disk space on the UNIX server. Archiving the logs compresses the files, freeing disk space. The VisionFS Setup program lets you configure your server to perform a checkpoint every week at the same time, which stops the server, archives the log files, then restarts the server.
You can also archive the logs manually at any time, If the server is running, use the visionfs checkpoint command. If the server is not running, use the visionfs archive command.
Log files are stored in the vfsdata/logs subdirectory of /usr/vision (the default installation directory). Each server uses multiple log files, which it might write to at any time.
Archiving the logs compresses the files and moves them to a numbered subdirectory of the logs directory. A file summary.txt in this directory contains the results of performing visionfs query at the time of the archive.
You can delete archived log files without affecting the server.