Bill Wichers wrote

> Why would you want to rotate MRTG logs? The files are a set size that do
> not grow over time, which is the whole point of the round-robin database.
> MRTG automatically takes care of older data in the files.
>
> If you were to rotate the logs, you would loose all historical data in the
> graphs before the time of rotation. Essentially you would force MRTG to
> start from scratch with a new log file every time you rotated out the old
> data.
>
> If you're just looking to backup the data just copy * in your MRTG
> directory to a backup location, or just copy *.log if you want the minimum
> data necassary to recreate all the graphs.

Thank you, i didn't know that logs have set size.
Regards,
Igor

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