P E A R L   E C H 0   U S E R   G U I D E  

Data Maintenance 

You can control the size of the native Pearl Echo Activity Log by archiving or 

purging your aged Pearl Echo data. 

The Pearl Echo service can be set to automatically perform an archive or 

 The maximum 

purge of the native Activity Log and its associated cache files.  Archived data 

size of any native 

can be stored to individual daily archive files or appended to a single archive 

Pearl Echo log file 

file.  Data moved to individual daily archive files will be stored to a file named 

is 2 gigabytes. The

Pearl Echo SQL 

arcmmddyyyy.snp where mm is the current month, dd is the current day, and 

Server module 

yyyy is the current year. The file will be stored in the local or network 

does not have this 

directory you specify in the text box above. 

limit. 

Archived data will remain available as a data source against which you can 

run reports. 

If Pearl Echo is configured to log data to Microsoft SQL Server, data 

maintenance is performed through maintenance scripts created by your SQL 

Server DBA. 

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