Re: Creating an import script for logs and I have some questions

Matt,

Thanks for the link, I knew I had seen the documentation somewhere.

So I'm going to look in to running the script from my vb interface but I have some additional questions. The whole reason for the interface is to give some additional feedback and allow for an easier setup of pulling log files to be imported (we have a lot of files going back for quite a few years that need to be transferred). In setting up my strategy for doing these imports, should I be running the archive script after every import? I feel like that is the right thing to do but I'm still catching up on how everything works.

The other big question is this: while we're playing catch up, we're going to try and use the javascript/image tracking to catch real-time stats but then plan on parsing out the server logs every night to get more information. What is the easiest path for deleting the information collected during the day before parsing the log files? I know I can run a mysql delete command with the siteid and date range, but I also read about deleting the piwik_archive_numeric table associated with the year_month that I'm replacing... is that a necessary step given that we will be tracking hundreds of sites?

Sorry if these are pretty basic questions but I'm trying to get answers with real backing instead of my supositions before we start doing our mass imports

Thanks!