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logrotate question

Rick Garland — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:02:15 GMT

Hi all:

For a certain set of apps, I make a tar ball that is then backed up to tape. The tar balls I make are stored on disk with the $DATE as part of the file name.

Since the files are named differently each day the logrotate just keeps renaming them 'myapp.20061001.tgz.1 myapp.20061002.tgz.1.1 myapp.20061003.tgz.1.1.1 myapp.20061004.tgz.1.1.1.1 etc.'

Here is the logrotate stanza;
/home/backup/myapp* {
rotate 8
daily
mail me@work.com
}

Or, am I going to run through a script that is checking the dates?

Thanks

Re: logrotate question

Jeff_Traigle — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:16:39 GMT

You'll be processing those yourself separately, I think. Logrotate is intended for rotating logs that will have and will retain the same name over time.

Re: logrotate question

Geoff Wild — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:53:30 GMT

Yes - logrotate expects to see the same filename.

So, if you want logrotate - then get rid of the $DATE in the tarball.

Change to say something like myapp.dailey.tgz

Rgds...Geoff

Re: logrotate question

Rick Garland — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:05:58 GMT

That's what I thought - just wanted to double check

Thanks folks!