How can I split large log files to upload them?

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Linux systems have a built in set of utilities that make it simple to work with large logs.

The steps are as follows:

  1. Compress the file or files.
  2. Split the files into pieces that are smaller than 20MB.
  3. Upload the split pieces.

For example, given a set of log files with the names AMPS-xxxx.log, you could run the following commands:

$ zip AMPS.logs.zip AMPS-*.log
$ split -b 19M -d AMPS.logs.zip AMPS-Log-Chunk-

At this point, you will have a numbered set of files:

$ ls *Chunk*
AMPS-Log-Chunk-00 AMPS-Log-Chunk-02 AMPS-Log-Chunk-04
AMPS-Log-Chunk-01 AMPS-Log-Chunk-03

Each of the files will be 19MB or less. You can upload the files into ZenDesk, and let the engineer handling the ticket know that these are split pieces of a compressed ZIP file. 

 

Keywords: ZenDesk, log files, upload log files, gzip, zip, split, support

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    Larin, Dmitriy

    All disk settings:

    PDs for VD 0 :
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    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    EID:Slt DID State DG Size Intf Med SED PI SeSz Model Sp
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    134:0 22 Onln 0 1.089 TB SAS HDD Y N 512B ST1200MM0039 U
    134:1 16 Onln 0 1.089 TB SAS HDD Y N 512B ST1200MM0039 U
    134:2 19 Onln 0 1.089 TB SAS HDD Y N 512B ST1200MM0039 U
    134:3 17 Onln 0 1.089 TB SAS HDD Y N 512B ST1200MM0039 U
    134:4 20 Onln 0 1.089 TB SAS HDD Y N 512B ST1200MM0039 U
    134:5 21 Onln 0 1.089 TB SAS HDD Y N 512B ST1200MM0039 U
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    EID-Enclosure Device ID|Slt-Slot No.|DID-Device ID|DG-DriveGroup
    DHS-Dedicated Hot Spare|UGood-Unconfigured Good|GHS-Global Hotspare
    UBad-Unconfigured Bad|Onln-Online|Offln-Offline|Intf-Interface
    Med-Media Type|SED-Self Encryptive Drive|PI-Protection Info
    SeSz-Sector Size|Sp-Spun|U-Up|D-Down|T-Transition|F-Foreign
    UGUnsp-Unsupported|UGShld-UnConfigured shielded|HSPShld-Hotspare shielded
    CFShld-Configured shielded|Cpybck-CopyBack|CBShld-Copyback Shielded

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