Question

Is it possibile to create a simple way to backup the event log, with such as a batch file or a simple app ? I need to make it working on a customer’s site, where the reference is an non-expert user. Thanks

Answer 1

Finally I made a little winapp using this method found on the internet:

public void DoBackup(string sLogName) {     string sBackup = sLogName;  // could be for example 'Application'     EventLog log = new EventLog();     log.Source = sBackup;      var query = from EventLogEntry entry in log.Entries                 orderby entry.TimeGenerated descending                 select entry;      string sBackupName = sBackup+'Log';     var xml = new XDocument(         new XElement(sBackupName,             from EventLogEntry entry in log.Entries             orderby entry.TimeGenerated descending             select new XElement('Log',               new XElement('Message', entry.Message),               new XElement('TimeGenerated', entry.TimeGenerated),               new XElement('Source', entry.Source),               new XElement('EntryType', entry.EntryType.ToString())             )           )         );      DateTime oggi = DateTime.Now;     string sToday = DateTime.Now.ToString('yyyyMMdd_hhmmss');     string path = String.Format('{0}_{1}.xml', sBackupName, sToday);     xml.Save(Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, path)); } 

this is the source link:

It simply works great!