Daniel,

The activity log is actually contained within the database and therefore
can't be redirected, and yes, there is a correlation between the activity
log and database size.

You can keep the log entries around for longer if you

set actlogretention <days>

where <days> is the number of days you want to keep in the actlog.

One solution might be to run a scheduled script that does

dsmadsmc -id=admin -pass=admin q actlog begindate=<date a week ago>
begintime=00:00 > outputfile.out

This is a baclient schedule that you would run with the object being a script
and the contents of the script being
as above (except of course you need to put in an appropriate admin and
password, date and filename.)

You would also have your actlogretention set to 7 so that each 7 days, it gets
pruned and the old
output would be written to a text file.

Laura Buckley
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
(719) 531-7171
buckley AT storsol DOT com