Hi,

i'd like to move logfiles to a backup location.

The backup-files looks like log<YYYYYMMDD>.gz
YYYY .. year, MM month DD date, created by logrotate

It can happen, that there will be more than one file created with the same name (same day)

So the first file is moved to backup location, ok.
But a second one will just overwrite the first one.

i tried

mv -b --backup-type=numbered log*.gz /backup

which works quite fine, gving me the old one as log<DATE>.gz~1~
log<DATE>.gz~2~ and so one, nicely lined up.

But this disrupts the original extension (.gz)

What i would like to have is something like

log<DATE>-<n>.gz, with n = 1..
So the first backuped file should be named log<DATE>.gz (just moved)
if a second arrives at backup-location it should be renamed to
log<DATE>-1.gz and the new one should have the name
log<DATE>-2.gz

Any good (short) ideas ?

Thanks
Robert

Have a look at the rsync command. Specifically it has a -b (--backup) flag that will likely do the trick.

Haven't used that particular flag but rsync is something I've used many other options on for similar purposes - duplicating files from one location to another. Note that rsync allows for copies between machines but doesn't require that (you can do copies between directories on a single machine).

Type "man rsync" for more details.