How to specify log file names?

[intrikrakin]

I’m on Linux if it matters.
Trying to follow this advice, but I think he only got it to work because he’s using duplicacy CLI.

Customize log output

Here’s my solution that shows the log to the command line AND appends it to daily log files in logs/ dir (mkdir logs/ first though) all while adding timestamps to every duplicacy output line: duplicacy backup -stats -threads 2 | ts '[%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z]' | tee -a logs/duplicacy-backup.$( date +"%Y%m%d" ).log Sample output: duplicacy backup -stats -threads 2 | ts '[%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z]' | tee -a logs/duplicacy-backup.$( date +"%Y%m%d" ).log [2019-08-08 01:15:39 PDT] Repository set to *** [2…

In the web-UI … what options would I need to use in order to be able to specify the log file name?
Every job log looks like this backup-20210112-210400.log
which is super unhelpful since I have no idea which job each log is for.

Basically I’m looking to be able to name the logs like this.

backup-[name of job]-[day][month][year]-[hour][minute].log

I’ve tried the following with no luck. The job just instantly fails.

Command Options =

-stats -threads 24 | tee -a /opt/duplicacy/logs/job1.$(date +"%d%m%Y").log

Global Options =

-comment job1

[towerbr]

This would certainly be useful (either with index-id or job-name - better), this functionality has already been commented on here a few times.

"index id" in the name of the log files

@gchen, please add the index number in the name of the log files. Suggestion: using the number that appears in the key "index": of "repositories": in the json file Rather than backup-20200721-110048.log it would be like: backup-0004-20200721-110048.log for the "index": 4,. It is extremely difficult to locate the log for a specific run amid dozens of log files.

[intrikrakin]

while that would be useful, that’s not what I’m after. I specifically wish to specify the name of the log file, not what content goes into it.

[towerbr]

But my suggestion is also for the name of the log file. The difference is that you suggested using the name of the job

@intrikrakin

backup-[name of job]-[day][month][year]-[hour][minute].log

and I suggested using the index id:

@towerbr

backup-0004-20200721-110048.log

Your suggestion is better.

[intrikrakin]

technically my [name of job] was just arbitrary highlighting that I’d like to be able to call the log files anything I want.
But being able to use a variable name like the actual name of the job from duplicacy would be cool too.
Mainly, I’m asking for the ability to specify a switch or some additional pipe in the options within the web-ui of duplicacy that would allow me to name the log files whatever I want. If I wanted to name the log file backup-the_dumbest_log_file_name_on _the_planet.log I could, so long as that is what I specified in the options.