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title: Tool log
description: The tool log records output from PingDirectoryProxy administrative tools such as import-ldif, backup, and restore to help diagnose problems.
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# Tool log

Many of the administrative tools provided with the server (for example, `import-ldif`, `export-ldif`, `backup`, `restore`, etc.) can take a significant length of time to complete write information to standard output or standard error or both while the tool is running. They also write additional output to files in the `logs/tools` directory (for example, `logs/tools/ import-ldif.log`). The information written to these log files can be useful for diagnosing problems encountered while they were running. When running using the server tasks interface, log messages generated while the task is running can alternately be written to the server error log file.