Accessing uploaded logs

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How do I read the logs that Vera has backed up to the central server?

I noticed that the logs on the Vera 3 unit only keep a day’s worth of log data and that the documentation says that the old logs are backed up to a central server (unless you have USB logging enabled), but I can’t find out how to access those backed up logs.

I just want to check some stuff that i log at midnight, but in the morning it’s all been backed up and wiped.

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If you temporarily uncheck SETUP → Logs → Archive old logs on server Vera will retain the archived logs locally. You should not do this unless you have USB logging enabled. The logs get saved as GNU Zipped Archive (gz) files in the same folder as LuaUPnP.log.

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If you’re just looking for device variable changes, then [tt]EventWatcher[/tt] can log these to a file (and retain them in memory for display.)

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To answer the original question, you cannot access the logs “backed” up to Micasaverde’s servers.

The logs are uploaded to Micasaverde’s servers where they are supposedly analyzed by automated systems, with the intent of improving Vera overall. The end user has no access to the uploaded logs and, it is my suspicion, that they are not archived for any meaningful period of time.

If you want historical logs, you must enable USB logging as others have already described.

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Thanks for the replies. The problem with USB logging is that I have dataMine logging to a USB stick and I don’t think you can mix them. Unless I can log to a second stick, without disturbing dataMine.

I’m using luup.log to debug a bit of code I have running at midnight and another at sunrise. I don’t get to see the entries for midnight, 'cos Vera “archives” it at 1:30.

Oh well, I’d better look for another solution.

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With a USB hub, you can run multiple flash drives and have DataMine and USB logging at the same time.

Be sure to backup your DataMine data first. There’s no telling which of the two drives Vera will choose to reformat for the logging partition and your DataMine data could easily get wiped! This risk continues on afterwards as well. Should the logging flash drive fail, it is likely that on the next reboot, Vera will reformat the DataMine drive for its own and again all data is lost.

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If you have a machine which runs a syslog server, then it’s easy to write diagnostics to that, rather than the log file - I do that all the time now, SO much easier. I just use my deveclopment machine for this purpose - it just means that it has to be running for the period you’re interested in logging.