Deleting unused transactions from roles

I am planning for unused transaction cleanup activity for SAP roles as mentioned below.
There are lot of roles which are copied from SAP menu due to which they consist of around 1000 transactions. Now I know there will be around 50 transactions which might be used and rest of them not used at all. I have made the strategy to find all the transactions which are not used during the last 3 months(using ST03N) and than consult the list with the role owners and delete the unused transactions.
I would like to know whether this is the correct strategy to follow, will the ST03N data-> transactional profile provides the relevant data to sort out the transactions not used in last 3 months. Please suggest or any alternative strategy can be followed. I know about sm19 audit log, but the problem is that it cannot be activated for all the users due to file space and performance issues.
Regards,
Sanjay

There are lot of roles which are copied from SAP menu due to which they consist of around 1000 transactions.
I am tempted to move this to the Test&Playground forum, because that is what building authorization roles from SAP Menü navigation nodes is.
If course if you do not care and it is better than manual profiles then it is not all bad, so I will leave it here in the security forum fir now.
From my side, if you have no clue... then go for the SAP standard roles and copy them into your own namepsace and work from there to start with. Check the objects included against audit check lists as step two. Take a closer look when you have a chance as step three (there are many manual auths in there...). You will be better off this ways than inventing roles of your own without any tcode or blue-print infos.
I would however still not call it "best practice" and it will backfire over time, but it can be done in a few days (so that you can get your bones out of the project and onto the next one without learning about the pain-points).
Eventually you become a professional bull-*******...
Cheers,
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