On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <farn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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) >> > Ok, I got robocopy copying but... two things... log file is stored in "D:\Program Files\path\to\apache\logs\" so you have to use quotes because of the space in the path, but don't use the trailing backslash as that escapes the final quote... same for the destination path. Second, last night the logs were rotated so the log size is only 7Mb now so I cannot test to see if this really solves the problem. I'll keep everyone posted on that. 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
