[Cialug] Logrotage for keeping archived backups

Matthew Nuzum newz at bearfruit.org
Wed Oct 9 19:58:28 CDT 2013


Good plan. I'll do that. I'm having to rush to move a server from one hosting company to the other. This is a better plan though.

On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:54 PM, Josh More <jmore at starmind.org> wrote:

> Try two logrotate scripts.  One that runs each month and moves the files
> outside of a watched directory to your archive location.
> 
> Your second script would run after the first one (priority-wise) and would
> do your normal rotation.
> 
> -Josh
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> 
>> I would like a backup retention policy that keeps the last 7 days of a log
>> file plus the last one of each month. Has anyone seen a log rotate config
>> that does this?
>> 
>> Or maybe a shell script that is already made?
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