Clean Up Old Logs and Trace Files with BRCONNECT

You can use BRCONNECT to clean up old log files, disk backups, export files, trace files and database logs. The aim is to avoid unnecessary use of disk space by deleting files that are no longer required.

BRCONNECT cleans up the following files:

• Detailed BRARCHIVE logs in the saparch directory

• Detailed BRBACKUP logs in the sapbackup directory

• Detailed BRCONNECT logs in the sapcheck directory

• Detailed BRRESTORE logs in the sapbackup directory

• Detailed BRRECOVER logs in the sapbackup directory

• Detailed BRSPACE logs in the sapreorg directory

• BRBACKUP disk backups of the database files

• BRARCHIVE disk backups of the offline redo log files

• BRSPACE export dumps and export parameter files in export dump directories

• Oracle trace and audit files

• Log records in the SDBAH and SDBAD tables

• Log records in the XDB tables

• Database check results in DBMSGORA table

Using the cleanup parameters in the Initialization Profile init<DBSID>.sap you can determine how old the objects are before they are deleted. For example, see cleanup_brarchive_log.

For more information on the command line options for cleaning up the log files, see -f cleanup.