ISPConfig3 & FC13 - How To Setup A Cron Job to Copy Previous Month Apache Log Files To A Backup Directory Desired goal: to maintain an ongoing archive of the http access log files. The standard log file rotation only keeps the last 30 days as part of the log rotation process, log files older than this are deleted. This came about as I wanted to be able to perform offline analysis of the log files after the month had ended, but found out that if I didn't manually move the backup files (*.gz) on the first or second of the month then they would start getting deleted. Script: #!/bin/bash BackupDir=logbackup cd ~/log for f in *-access.log.gz do filename=$f done cd ~ HomeDir=$PWD BackupYear=${f:0:4} BackupMonth=${f:4:2} # Test to see if the main backup directory exists if not then create it if [ ! -d $HomeDir/$BackupDir ]; then mkdir $HomeDir/$BackupDir fi # Test to see if the backup directory for the year exists, if not then create it. if [ ! -d $HomeDir/$BackupDir/$BackupYear ]; then mkdir $HomeDir/$BackupDir/$BackupYear fi # Test to see if the backup directory for the month exists, if not then create it. if [ ! -d $HomeDir/$BackupDir/$BackupYear/$BackupMonth ]; then mkdir $HomeDir/$BackupDir/$BackupYear/$BackupMonth fi #Step #02 - command to be executed: cp ~/log/*-access.log.gz ~/$BackupDir/$BackupYear/$BackupMonth/ # end of script More details at MrCompTech.com
