When does it start zipping logs?

[ghost]

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[mattberther]

It zips the logs after rotation. Please note that some long-overdue refactoring of the transport has occurred. A PR is available at #107. Also, a pre-release version has been published to npm. Please npm install [email protected] if you see any strangeness with the 1.x transport and zipping.

Please re-open this issue if you have further questions.

[ghost]

It zips after one day?

I have many .log files from months ago.

Does the application have to run continually for it to zip them up daily?

Maybe it should become a feature where, upon starting, it can detect old log files and zip them up.

[mattberther]

The application will zip the log after it is rotated, assuming zippedArchive is set to true. The transport will not modify any files it does not know about, which means it will not zip up log files that were not created by the currently running process.

[ghost]

Is it possible to make it so that it does zip up log files that were generated by previous instances of the same app?

[mattberther]

The transport will not be updated to zip up log files that the currently running process did not create. Perhaps this is something that your app can do prior to instantiating the winston logger.

[ghost]

Would it be possible to expose a method for zipping logs?

[mattberther]

No, but your app code can zip logs using this code:

var zlib = require('zlib');
var oldFile = someMethodToRetrieveYourFile();

var gzip = zlib.createGzip();
var inp = fs.createReadStream(oldFile);
var out = fs.createWriteStream(oldFile + '.gz');
inp.pipe(gzip).pipe(out).on('finish', function () {
    fs.unlinkSync(oldFile);
});