https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2294
--- Comment #24 from Karl O. Pinc <k...@meme.com> --- On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:20:16 +0000 samba-b...@samba.org wrote: > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2294 > > --- Comment #23 from dajo...@gmail.com --- > Looking for this capability prior to entering it as an enhancement > request myself, I found everything here and basically have the same > use case. My version is that I am creating a regular backup of logs > from many servers' services onto a single box, and doing so with > rsync. Some of those services still do the .1, .2, .3 file rotation, > which makes for a lot of needless work, especially when these are > 100+ MiB files. It would be great if rsync could detect this to just > transfer the new file and rename the old ninety-nine (or > however-many). It is not so hard to add the following to your logroate.conf. Just saying. # Add a date extension instead of just a number for rsync hardlinked # backups. dateext dateformat -%Y-%m-%d-%s Karl <k...@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
