Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe T  What is the process of zipping files to compress them? My /var is at 82% so I am a little uncomfortable.
I have my logs switch on a daily basis. My /var/opt/CPfw1-R55p/log directory is very large. I would like to compress it and move the files somewhere off the box.
Is there a command for zipping log files a month at a time? I would like to zip them in directories for the month of generation.
Thanks, Joe |
Archiving process:
Compress:
gzip archive.tar
Decompress:
gunzip archive.tar.gz
tar c dir/ | bzip2 > dir.tar.bz2
Run a cron job which takes all the log files for that month and archives them to create a gzip file with date and time stamp as the name.