US Patent 7606802 Preserving log files in a distributed computing environment

A system includes a first device that runs an archiving master program. The first device includes available storage for use by the archiving master program. A second device runs a computer program that generates log files for storage on the second device. The second device runs an archiving slave program. The archiving slave program sends the log files to the archiving master program. The archiving master program receives the log files from the archiving slave program and stores the log files in the available storage.