A simple, lightweight CLI tool to compress and archive log files from any specified directory, with automatic timestamping and logging.

This project helps automate log rotation and archiving in a clean and structured way, useful for system admins and DevOps engineers. Built entirely in Bash for portability across Unix-based systems.

This project is based on the Server Performance Stats (https://roadmap.sh/projects/log-archive-tool) project on roadmap.sh.

• Accepts any log directory as an argument
• Compresses logs into .tar.gz format
• Archives stored in a dedicated /archives directory
• Archives are timestamped (e.g. logs_archive_20250419_154813.tar.gz)
• Archives are logged in archive_log.txt
• Supports /var/log or any custom path

./log-archive.sh /path/to/logs