Re: [PLUG] Getting only today's logs

Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> · Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:03:58 -0400

I haven't tried it, but looking at the docs for tar it appears that it
doesn't like the YYYYMMDD format.  Try using YYYY-MM-DD instead.

Walt

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 04:26:48PM -0400, Aaron Crosman wrote:
> I am trying to write a script that will copy files from our remote
> debian web server to a local SuSE server that processes web logs for
> stats.  For obvious reasons I only want to copy the new files.  Most of
> the script works great.  I can connect the to remote, run the commands
> below, scp the resulting tar.gz file to the local server and decompress
> them in desired directory.  It's the creation of the tar file that seems
> to be giving me trouble.  It always copies all the files, not just the
> new ones.  Can someone please tell me what I'm missing?
> 
> Thanks
> Aaron
> 
> =============== Bash Commands executed on remote host follow
> ====================
> 
> # Get the new date
> now=$(date +%Y%m%d)
> 
> # Get the previous Date
> prev=$(cat date.logs.dump)
> 
> # Remove the old tar file
> rm ~/siteLogs.tar.gz
> 
> # create the new tar file
> tar -czf ~/siteLogs.tar.gz --after-date="$prev"  /www/sitelogs
> 
> # save the date
> echo $now > date.logs.dump
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