I am trying to create a batch file that will zip up a weeks worth of logs
and then move that zip file.
The problem I am having is that I want to zip the previous 7 days, but
sometimes the last log is time stamped say 04/16/06 11:59 PM and sometimes
say 04/17/06 12:00 AM. Because of that, if I run
Don't run your script at midnight but at 12:30. This will give the server
plenty of time. There is a good sample script here:
http://www.iisfaq.com/Default.aspx?tabid=2809
It doesn't use WinZip but creates MS cab files.
Thanks
John Dobbin
Pen Publishing Interactive -
Hi John,
If you use daily IIS logfiles I would go by filename instead of time stamp.
Our log archival script is scheduled for a few days (5) afterwards to zip up
the previous month's files. You don't need to wait that long, but since IIS
sometimes locks the file for a while, I would wait at
Problem is the file names are unique by date, not by day, so to use that you
would have to create a dynamic script, correct?
John T
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Well...
Once you kick start the procedure by zipping all of the previous
folders, then all you have left is 7 days worth of logs, so you can bag
the prev x days logic and just use dec*.log as the parameter.
Or likewise, tell the script to do the previous 8 days and you'll always
get the full
Sorry for the quick OT post, but I don't have time to research it further.
But in one of our offices we have windows XP machines mapped to shared
drives on a Linux Red Hat box that suddenly couldn't be access. After the
latest auto update they could only see the Red Hat PC by IP address. The
Sure. A simple VBS script can determine the current date, and back up X
days to determine the filename(s) to be added.
Admittedly this is much simpler on a monthly schedule that a weekly
schedule, since you could just go by the first part of the file name with
wildcards. However, in your case,
Good point. Add to the weekly file daily instead of running just once at
the end of the week... assuming you don't need the files for reporting in
the interim. Then you just need to have a function to determine the zip
file name for the week.
Darin.
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From: Nick
John,
I run the following 2 commands on my daily IIS log files.
forfiles /p c:\clients /s /d -3 /m ex*.log /c cmd /c wzzip @fname.zip @file
forfiles /p c:\clients /s /d -3 /m ex*.log /c cmd /c del @file
I keep each of my clients log files underneath their own client directory so I use forfiles
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Hi John,
I just use the winzip command line tool every day to turn the 1 day old
log file into a zip file by the SAME name in the SAME location. This
way, you can simply move anything *.zip to a different drive, while *.log
are current log files.
Here is the content of my
C:
CD C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\
FOR /R %%f in (ex*.log) do C:\Program Files\WinZip\WZzip.exe -m -ex
-Td01
%%~dpnf.zip %%f
But isn't the problem that the -T switch looks at the file modified date and
if the final line is at 12:00 AM then it will have one date but if the final
line is at
But again, if Windows sees the file as 12:00 AM 04/17/06 rather than 11:59:59 PM 04/16/06 and you are
running the script on 04/17/06 then it will not include yesterdays log as Windows says it
was modified today.
FYI, I am doing this for IIS logs, KIWI
logs as well as Declude logs so I
how about this. Always zip up the logs after midnight. Then for sure the
prev day is complete and you need to ignore todays.
[I am presuming you will only have the 7 days in the dir to be zipped]
# set archive filename file name
for /f Tokens=2-4 Delims=/ %%i in ('date /t') do set
Or likewise, tell the script to do the previous 8 days and you'll always
get the full list.
Problem is I will then have 2 zip files with the same log, one incomplete
and when I have Sawmill update its database that will cause an issue.
I am trying to fully automate this process.
John T
Don't do it by time stamp, do it by determining the
filenames and adding them appropriately. That's what we do and it works
perfectly, though we do it monthly instead of weekly.
Darin.
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