[Zope] Re: Zope & logrotate

[Nate Aune]

Hi Paul,

As with most Zope sites, we are using Apache in front of Zope and 
therefore using Apache's logging facilities instead of the Z2.log file 
creating by Zope.

We are now trying to build a backup script to backup our Zope 
products/data/logs and would like to know how to backup the log files 
without losing any data.

We are using rdiff-backup and it doesn't like it if the file changes 
while it's doing the backup. This is why we are packing the database 
before each backup and backing up the Data.fs.old file instead of the 
live Data.fs file.

But we would not like to rotate the log files daily just to get a file 
that we can backup. We'd prefer to rotate the log files monthly, but do 
daily backups.

Is there a 'best practice' way of handling the backups of these Apache 
log files?  We've had a look at the AWStats FAQ-COM120 ("How to rotate 
my logs without loosing data"), but this still doesn't explain the issue 
of backing up the log files without doing daily rotations.

Nate

Paul Winkler wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 07:03:31PM +0000, John Poltorak wrote:
> 
>>How I go about archiving Zope's log every day?
>>
>>Can I get logrotate to process the log file?
> 
> 
> Sure you can, I do it every night with a cron job.
> 
> The only thing to be careful of is that you want a postrotate 
> script that tells zope to reopen the log file.
> See doc/SIGNALS.txt to learn how to tell zope that,
> and the logrotate man page to learn how about postrotate.
> 
>