Hello Jacob, This is a good tip, I will look into it.
Much thanks, Bernard Bois ARRIS Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 7, 2016, at 5:51 PM, "Jacob L. Anawalt" <janaw...@geckosoftware.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 2016-03-07 2:05 PM, Bois, Bernard wrote: >> I'd like to know if it is possible to specify a maximum number of backups >> when a >> time-triggered rollover policy is used. > > I don't believe there is a default configuration that works like that. > > Perhaps you could make a policy object that does rolling like the > FixedWindowRollingPolicy but uses the TriggeringPolicy from the > TimeBasedRollingPolicy. > >> It appears both classes supporting time-based rollovers >> (DailyRollingFileAppender and rolling::RollingFileAppender) do not have such >> an >> option. > > You need to look at the RollingPolicy implementation of > rolling::RollingFileAppender to find that. The FixedWindowRollingPolicy has a > max (and min) index used to rename a fixed number of backup files. > > -- > Jacob Anawalt > Gecko Software, Inc. > janaw...@geckosoftware.com > 435-752-8026
