For the past three weeks, I have each day downloaded my website's access log by hand, at first literally, using FTP, and then, after a couple of days, with a command to do so. And each time, I would go look at the file and change it's name from access.log.0 to access.log.yyyy-mm-dd where dd is actually yesterday's date. The point of all this is to try and get into a position to make use of a neat-sounding analytical tool called Bise (see ).
I'm nowhere near that, yet, but storing the log files here is crucial. Soon, I'll be travelling without my laptop for a while, and I don't want to lose the files as they are rotated off the server, so it was time to automate the process. I ended up with a very simple script that first downloads and then renames the file. The cool bit was finding out that it is relatively easy to get yesterday's date in bash. $( date -v-1d +%F ) gives me exactly what I need.
Tomorrow I'll run the script one more time to check and then add it to my cron jobs. And while I'm about it, I might just add the other two backups that I do by hand most days.
Webmentions
Webmentions
Webmentions allow conversations across the web, based on a web standard. They are a powerful building block for the decentralized social web.
If you write something on your own site that links to this post, you can send me a Webmention by putting your post's URL in here:
Comments