[chef] Re: how would I do automatic compressing and archiving of old files via chef

[Graham Christensen < >]

I would encourage you to look into using log rotate rules. Placing a log rotate configuration with fairly straight forward rules can accomplish all of these tasks.

Graham

 - Graham

On Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Stephen Corbesero wrote:

I used to have some CFEngine rules that would look for old files and compress them in place.  A subsequent rule would look for these compressed files and, if they were older still, would move them to an archive directory.  A final rule would erase the compressed, archived files if they became very old.

 

With CFEngine, I could have rules that only did this once a day, using something like a .Hour01 class on a statement inside of its files section.

 

Is there a straightforward way of doing this ala Chef?  I could create a set of code blocks or put cron jobs on the systems, but I am wondering if there is a solution similar to CFEngine’s approach.

 

 

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Stephen Corbesero, Performance Engineer

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