Backup logs

[Steve Hemond]

Hi all,

I have setup the cron deamon so it will execute two backup scripts (one that
will be executed from monday to friday and the other will be executed over
the weekend). These two scripts use the BACKUP command to backup some
filesystems. These filesystems contains a LOT of FILES. I want to log the
contents of what will be backupped on a file named with the current date.
(So it will result in having a log file for each day). However, a simple
log file take about 16 megs of disk space, which is enormous for a simple
text file!

Is there any lighter or brighter way to keep clean and useful backup logs?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

[Dan Foster]

In article <bKS6b.402$z5.68906@news20.bellglobal.com>, Steve Hemond <shemond@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have setup the cron deamon so it will execute two backup scripts (one that
> will be executed from monday to friday and the other will be executed over
> the weekend). These two scripts use the BACKUP command to backup some
> filesystems. These filesystems contains a LOT of FILES. I want to log the
> contents of what will be backupped on a file named with the current date.
> (So it will result in having a log file for each day). However, a simple
> log file take about 16 megs of disk space, which is enormous for a simple
> text file!
>
> Is there any lighter or brighter way to keep clean and useful backup logs?

Install bzip2 and then have it do a 'bzip2 -9 <file>' afterwards -- that
should reduce it to about 200K or so, afterwards. (bzip2 -9 tend to reduce
an ASCII text file to about 1% of its original size, give or take a bit.)

-Dan

[Michael W Ryder]

Steve Hemond wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have setup the cron deamon so it will execute two backup scripts (one that
> will be executed from monday to friday and the other will be executed over
> the weekend). These two scripts use the BACKUP command to backup some
> filesystems. These filesystems contains a LOT of FILES. I want to log the
> contents of what will be backupped on a file named with the current date.
> (So it will result in having a log file for each day). However, a simple
> log file take about 16 megs of disk space, which is enormous for a simple
> text file!
>
> Is there any lighter or brighter way to keep clean and useful backup logs?
>

I just write the filenames to the log file and my log file is about 160K
for about 8 GB of files. I don't know why your file is over 100 times
the size.

> Thanks in advance,
>
> Steve