PHPLogPacker

A lightweight PHP utility to automatically compress and archive files when they reach a defined size threshold.

✨ Features

• ✅ Compresses files >50MB (default) using 7Zip or fallback to Zip
• ✅ Recursive directory scanning (includes subfolders)
• ✅ Configurable retention policy and compression settings
• ✅ Zero dependencies – pure PHP CLI tool

🚀 Usage

Basic Command

php logpacker.php /target/directory/

How It Works

• Scans /target/directory/ and all subfolders
• Compresses files exceeding max_file_size_MB (default: 50MB)
• Maintains num_files_archived versions (default: 5)
• Oldest archives are automatically deleted

⚙️ Configuration (optional)

To customize, create a logpacker.ini file in the script's root directory:

; logpacker.ini
num_files_archived = 5   ; Number of archived versions to keep
max_file_size_MB   = 50  ; Minimum file size to trigger compression (in MB)
days_last_change   = 0   ; [TODO] Archive files modified X days ago
days_from_creation = 0   ; [TODO] Archive files created X days ago
archive_extension  = 7z  ; Compression format (7z or zip)

🔄 Archive Rotation Example

Original structure:

error.log (60MB)

After first run:

error.log.1.7z (compressed)

After subsequent runs:

error.log.1.7z → error.log.2.7z
error.log.2.7z → error.log.3.7z
...
error.log.5.7z → deleted (oldest archive)

📦 Compression Methods

• 7Zip (default, if installed on system)
• Zip (fallback if 7Zip unavailable)

📜 License

Open-source under the MIT License.