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On Tue, 13 Aug 2013, bad apple wrote:
On 13/08/13 21:41, Dan Gibbs wrote:Is is perfectly acceptable to use rsync and cron for log rotation with rsyslog? I ask in case there is a correct way to do it or I am missing a trick! Cheers, GibbsYou'll need to be a bit more specific - are we talking on a single host, or a satellite box forwarding part or all of it's syslog to a remote syslog server, or the remote/master machine? Is there any reason why you'd not use logrotate? Unless you're rotating and then transferring stale logs to a remote host for archiving/mining, I have no idea how rsync would come into it at all. The only thing I can tell is that you're not using Arch or Fedora, otherwise you'd be on systemd and would be wrestling with the horrid journalctl... Regards
I was a big vague! The log rotation itself isn't an issue. I want to archive the old logs on a different server for security/storage reasons.
I was just curious if there was a 'best practice' when it comes to doing this but I imagine simply using rsync is perfectly fine.
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