[plug] How to retain logrotate backups forever

[Chris McCormick]

Hi Byron,

Thanks, I ended up doing this and set it to 100 years of backups.

Cheers,

Chris.


On 29/12/23 1:57 pm, Byron Hammond wrote:
> Can you bump up the rotate number to something massive so it effectively 
> isn't deleted for a very very long time?
> 
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 at 09:22, Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx 
> <mailto:chris at mccormick.cx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     Does anybody know how to cause logrotate to retain the rotated logs
>     forever? The man page for `rotate` says this:
> 
> 
>       > rotate count
>       >     Log files are rotated count times before being removed or
>     mailed
>     to the address specified in a mail directive. If count is 0, old
>     versions are removed rather than rotated.
> 
> 
>     It doesn't say what happens if this option is omitted entirely. I asked
>     ChatGPT and it lied to me with a catastrophic answer which would delete
>     everything. I can't find an answer on the usual sites like
>     Stackoverflow. Hoping for a response an actual human who has done this
>     before.
> 
>     Thanks very much!
> 
> 
>     Chris.
> 
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