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12-12-2011

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Need help to tar and gzip files per date

hi,

I have multiple files created per date every day. I want to be able to tar all the files older than 7 days into a single file and then gzip that tarred file and move it to a separate partition. Then delete the actual files.

Eg - "ls -l" shows Dec 8 has 6-8 files created. I want to tar them into a single file Date.tar and gzip them and move it to a separate partition.

The platform I run on does not have perl and its only shell scripting and I am not very good at it.

Please advise.

Thank you, V

Code:

-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root      1116305 Dec  8 00:13 2011-12-08_001334.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root           80 Dec  3 00:58 2011-12-08_001334.logaccount_ptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        46580 Dec  8 00:13 2011-12-08_001334.loginitial_ptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        46616 Dec  8 00:13 2011-12-08_001334.logptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root       295855 Dec  8 23:59 2011-12-08_235901.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root           80 Dec  8 00:13 2011-12-08_235901.logaccount_ptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        12012 Dec  8 23:58 2011-12-08_235901.loginitial_ptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        12012 Dec  8 23:58 2011-12-08_235901.logptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root       291721 Dec  9 23:59 2011-12-09_235916.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root           80 Dec  8 23:59 2011-12-09_235916.logaccount_ptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        11892 Dec  9 23:59 2011-12-09_235916.loginitial_ptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        11892 Dec  9 23:59 2011-12-09_235916.logptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root       280519 Dec 10 23:59 2011-12-10_235900.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root           80 Dec  9 23:59 2011-12-10_235900.logaccount_ptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        11420 Dec 10 23:58 2011-12-10_235900.loginitial_ptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        11420 Dec 10 23:58 2011-12-10_235900.logptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root       274462 Dec 11 23:59 2011-12-11_235900.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root           80 Dec 10 23:59 2011-12-11_235900.logaccount_ptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        11184 Dec 11 23:58 2011-12-11_235900.loginitial_ptr
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        11184 Dec 11 23:58 2011-12-11_235900.logptr

---------- Post updated at 11:13 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:45 AM ----------

I can use the command to list all log files older than 7 days

Code:

find / -mtime +90 -exec ls -l {} \; -name "*.log*"

Now the challenge is to create a tar of the multiple files per day date.tar and then gzip to date.tar.gz

Last edited by methyl; 12-12-2011 at 02:56 PM.. Reason: please use code tags

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SYSSTAT(5)							Linux User's Manual							SYSSTAT(5)

NAME

       sysstat - sysstat configuration file.

DESCRIPTION

       This  file is read by sa1(8) and sa2(8) shell scripts from the sysstat's set of tools.  It consists of a sequence of shell variable assign-
       ments used to configure sysstat logging.  The variables and their meanings are:

       HISTORY
	      The number of days during which a daily data file or a report should be kept. Data files or reports older than this number  of  days
	      will be removed by the sa2(8) shell script.

       COMPRESSAFTER
	      Number of days after which daily data files are to be compressed, either by gzip or bzip2.

       SADC_OPTIONS
	      Options  that  should be passed to sadc(8).  With these options (see sadc(8) manual page), you can select some additional data which
	      are going to be saved in daily data files.  These options are used only when a new data file is created. They will be  ignored  with
	      an already existing one.

FILES

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AUTHOR

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SEE ALSO

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