Log4j Rollingpolicy and MaxbackupIndex

Question

Am using the following code to rollover logs each and every minute and it works perfectly.

log4j.appender.AllFlows=org.apache.log4j.rolling.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.AllFlows.rollingPolicy=org.apache.log4j.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy
log4j.appender.AllFlows.rollingPolicy.File=E:/Logs/AllFlows.log 
log4j.appender.AllFlows.rollingPolicy.FileNamePattern=E:/Logs/AllFlows.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm}
log4j.appender.AllFlows.MaxBackupIndex=10
log4j.appender.AllFlows.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.AllFlows.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p %x - %m%n

However i just want to know , are they any alternatives for MaxbackupIndex as this is not working as expected when i use TimebasedRollingPolicy?

Am using log41.2.17 and apache log4j extras

Answer 1

Unfortunately, this is not possible using the standard API of log4j or even with the Extras.

However, you can use the class org.apache.log4j.DailyMaxRollingFileAppender¹, e.g.:

log4j.appender.AllFlows=org.apache.log4j.DailyMaxRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.AllFlows.File=E:/Logs/AllFlows.log 
log4j.appender.AllFlows.MaxBackupIndex=10
log4j.appender.AllFlows.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm
log4j.appender.AllFlows.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout  
log4j.appender.AllFlows.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p %x - %m%n

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Notes

1. See the code of this class in Custom DailyRollingFileAppender with MaxBackupIndex.