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[jira] [Updated] (LOG4J2-1075) Support additional compression
formats for rollover
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1075?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Remko Popma updated LOG4J2-1075:
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Description:
RollingFileAppender and RollingRandomAccessFileAppender currently support two compression formats: gzip and zip. Java has built-in support for these formats so these are guaranteed to work without external dependencies.
However, there are formats that give much better compression, for example bzip2 results in 40% smaller files.
At work, we have a requirement to store large log files in smaller format for long term storage. I would like to be able to do this at rollover. Currently we gzip at rollover and have a separate script unzip and bzip2 these files. It would be convenient to be able to use bzip2 directly from log4j at rollover.
We can leverage the work done here: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/
was:
RollingFileAppender and RollingRandomAccessFileAppender currently support two compression formats: gzip and zip.
Java has built-in support for these formats so these are guaranteed to work without external dependencies.
However, there are formats that give much better compression, for example bzip2.
At work, we have a requirement to store large log files in smaller format for long term storage. I would like to be able to do this at rollover. Currently we gzip at rollover and have a separate script unzip and bzip2 these files. It would be convenient to be able to use bzip2 directly from log4j at rollover.
We can leverage the work done here: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/
> Support additional compression formats for rollover
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> Key: LOG4J2-1075
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1075
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Appenders
> Affects Versions: 2.3
> Reporter: Remko Popma
> Assignee: Remko Popma
> Fix For: 2.4
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> RollingFileAppender and RollingRandomAccessFileAppender currently support two compression formats: gzip and zip. Java has built-in support for these formats so these are guaranteed to work without external dependencies.
> However, there are formats that give much better compression, for example bzip2 results in 40% smaller files.
> At work, we have a requirement to store large log files in smaller format for long term storage. I would like to be able to do this at rollover. Currently we gzip at rollover and have a separate script unzip and bzip2 these files. It would be convenient to be able to use bzip2 directly from log4j at rollover.
> We can leverage the work done here: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/
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