Quick bash script hack to take a bunch of log files and make tar/gz out of them.
You could add a SCP line in the loop and it would auto move them to the log backup server…
#!/bin/bash # tarup files designed for tarring up a bunch of checkpoint log files # not sure why they don't just do this, but this is the format # we want before transferring to log backup, so... # pulls only the unique first parts of a list of log files # and ONLY for the current year, hoping that nobody names a random file ^%Y # 2013-07-09_094213_1 # 2013-07-10_144108_2 # 2013-07-11_091531_3 # etc # get real year RYEAR=$(/bin/date +'%Y') # make them type the year, assuming they've checked for other files YEAR=$1 [ $# -eq 0 ] && { echo "Usage: $0 $RYEAR\n"; exit 1; } # we have the year, get the unique file name portion from something like: #2013-07-10_144108_2.log #2013-07-10_144108_2.logaccount_ptr #2013-07-10_144108_2.loginitial_ptr #2013-07-10_144108_2.logptr #2013-07-11_091531_3.log #2013-07-11_091531_3.logaccount_ptr #2013-07-11_091531_3.loginitial_ptr #2013-07-11_091531_3.logptr # into something like this: # 2013-07-10_144108_2 2013-07-11_091531_3 # assuming that only something with YYYY_etc.log for our regex/test for FILE in `ls $YEAR*.log|awk 'BEGIN { FS = "." }; { print $1 }'`; do # let the user know what's going on echo creating $FILE.gz # tar/gz to a temp file tarring log, ptr, accounting, etc echo nice -19 tar cvzf t_${FILE}.gz `ls ${FILE}.*` # delete the others echo rm $FILE.* # rename it back to original echo mv t_${FILE}.gz ${FILE}.gz done