Re: Retrieval of historical access logs removed by logrotate

[Amjath Khan S <amjath.khan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thank you for your input. Unfortunately our filesystem was XFS. So, we are looking at other tools that work on XFS. I will post an update on the outcome of other tools

Regards

Amjath

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tuesday 29 April 2025 at 19:07:06, Amjath Khan S wrote:

> We have a bugzilla instance that is hosted on http server. The logrotate
> configuration of the server is set for the default 4 weeks and old logs
> were removed on a weekly basis. Is there a possibility to recover the
> historical logs deleted by logrotate. Any help would be appreciated

http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/

It's worked for me, but on a busy server the inodes may well already have been
over-written.


Antony.

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