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Data Retention

Server Management > System Settings > Data Retention

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Like any other Linux server BlueOnyx will also gather logfiles that contain information about system and network related events. Such as which IP addresses tried to connect to which services and what transactions they performed while doing so.

Web server logs contain information classified as personal data by default under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation ('GDPR' in English or 'Datenschutz-Grundverordnung' 'DSGVO' in German). The new privacy regulation comes in effect in May 2018, and just about everyone who does any business with the EU or EU clients needs to take action now to either become compliant or to provide means to their clients so that they can become compliant. Even if the laws are stupid to begin with.

That is why BlueOnyx released an update for BlueOnyx 5207R, 5208R and 5209R on 30th of April 2018 to allow BlueOnyx users to adjust their servers to comply better with the 'GDPR'/'DSGVO'.

More information on the new regulation:

We at BlueOnyx are no lawyers. We provide software. Hence we cannot and will not guarantee that any BlueOnyx in any shape or form is compliant with the 'GDPR'. Just setting a few checkboxes in the BlueOnyx GUI interface alone will not guarantee that your server complies with the GDPR.

However: The tools we give you at hand are a stepping stone that aids you in crossing off one or two items on the list of reaching compliance.

Logfile Retention

(All information hereafter assumes you DO have the updates from 30th April 2018 (and later) installed).

By default BlueOnyx 5207R/5208R/5209R keep 14 days of logfiles in /var/log/. After 14 days these logfiles are deleted from /var/log/.

However: Some usage information from these logs (pertaining to HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and Email) is extracted daily from the combined logs and is moved over to the /logs/ directories of the individual Virtual Sites that were end-point for that traffic. The information gathered this way is made available to the Server Admin as well as the respective siteAdmin's via the BlueOnyx GUI interface in various places, such as:

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