On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <farn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
Somewhere between robocopy and rsync there is a gotcha involving that trailing slash and the difference between copying the folder and contents or dumping the contents without the folder. I can never remember which program it applies to or which behavior the trailing slash causes. -- Don Delp 618.616.2993 http://nesman.net/ -- 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
