Zipping logs on period basis

[daneel3001]

Hello

I am trying to find the right combination of settings for FileAsyncTarget which will allow me to archive logs in this way:

• Every Sunday (if weekly archive file), archive existing logs, via archiveEvery
• Keep log files to around 500KB each, via archiveAboveSize
• Keep as many as 50 weekly archives, via maxArchiveFiles
• Archive logs to be zipped using archive file name layout of "archive-{####}.zip", via archiveFileName

Today I am using the following configuration but I don't think it's quite working and it might be due to conflicting settings, specifically archiceAboveSize vs archiveEvery properties.

<target xsi:type="File" encoding="utf-8"
                fileName="${logDirectory}/${fileBaseName}.log"				
                archiveFileName="${logDirectory}/${fileBaseName}.{####}.zip"                
                archiveAboveSize="512000" 
                maxArchiveFiles="50"				
                archiveEvery="Sunday"
                concurrentWrites="false"
				enableArchiveFileCompression="true"
				archiveOldFileOnStartup="false"
                layout="${layout}" />
      </target>

Many thanks in advance

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[snakefoot]

NLog has no such functionality. You need to setup a scheduled-task or cron-job to make the custom zipping-logic happen.

[snakefoot]

You are ofcourse welcome to create a pullrequest that resolves #1249 and #2732. Then the file-compression could be extended to perform bulk compression in background. Maybe also look at #4244

[daneel3001]

Hello

Ok thanks for letting me know these aren't available at the moment.
I think we will consider the script route as suggested.