[plug] How to retain logrotate backups forever

[Onno Benschop]

Fingers crossed that logrotate still works on the OS that your descendents
are using then.

Remember to set up a cron job to send an alert so that they don't get a
rude surprise when today's log unexpectedly gets deleted.

Perhaps add a comment to your will about today's log being erased on a
particular date, just to be sure.

You could of course just set up a cron job to move the logs somewhere else
and perhaps give them an appropriate name - say their ISO date with the
name of the log.

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On Fri, 29 Dec 2023, 19:16 Chris McCormick, <chris at mccormick.cx> wrote:

> 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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