Reducing wear level of sd card by storing openhab log files in memory

[5iver (Scott Rushworth)]

Good point. I don’t use openHABian, but I don’t see why you couldn’t you create a ram drive and then edit your org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg file to put the logs into it. Downside would be that the logs would be wiped after a reboot, unless you archived them off somewhere. Odd timing, because I posted this earlier today…

Archive logs to a separate folder

There are other posts about separating out logs for specific bindings, etc. (the logger below will do that). This post is to show how to send logs rolled over from an appender to a separate directory. This would be useful, for example, to archive zwave log files in one place for log term storage and analysis, without bloating the OH directory. You’ll be modifying the /userdata/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg file (location with depend on installation type). The .filePattern is what rolls the logs…