On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Don Delp <nesma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I should have thought of Robocopy earlier. Reading about the idea of > using tail to snatch a bit of the file at a time made me think of it. > We use it all the time to copy large files over small pipes. > > > There is a trick to Robocopy in the flags and arguments. Try this: > > robocopy /Z /V /W:1 /R:9999 \path\to\logs\ \path\to\new\location\ > apache.log > > /Z - restartable-on-error copy mode > /V - verbose > /W:1 - wait 1 second between retries (default is much larger I think) > /R:9999 - retry 9999 times (default is 1 million, which might actually > be better in this case) > \path\to\logs - folder to copy source from > \path\to\new\location\ - folder to copy to > apache.log - actual name of file to copy (you can not just append this > to the source folder argument as \path\to\logs\apache.log like you > would with most command utilities) > Don, I didn't realize robocopy would do that... I'll give it a try and let everyone know. Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
