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Old 03-10-2011
Archiving Cron Job
Hi all,

I have a website that constantly logs. There are thousands of log files a month. Because of the large number of files the site is super slow. My first solution was to delete files 30 days or older. That is no longer a viable solution, I would like to keep the files.

After some thought a better solution would be a CRON job that will zip up the files monthly (or bi-weekly), then place them in a sub-directory. I guess name it using the date the zip was created.

I Googled for a while before coming here to ask. I might have been searching for the wrong thing; if there is already a tutorial out please point me in the right direction.

Thanks,
MrDude
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Old 03-10-2011
I think you should look at logrotate instead of using a cron job.
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Old 03-10-2011
Cron Job Still
Thanks for the reply Flexy. I am sticking with the cron job because I have another site the incrementally storage images... in the same manner. And would like to back those up as I stated with this Cron Job Script. But I will keep "logrotate" in my memory banks. Smilie MrDude
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