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docs: improve logging docs, fixes #3549

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Thomas Waldmann 2018-03-09 20:44:20 +01:00
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@ -86,8 +86,22 @@ If you have set BORG_REPO (see above) and an archive location is needed, use
``::archive_name`` - the repo URL part is then read from BORG_REPO.
Type of log output
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Logging
~~~~~~~
Borg writes all log output to stderr by default. But please note that something
showing up on stderr does *not* indicate an error condition just because it is
on stderr. Please check the log levels of the messages and the return code of
borg for determining error, warning or success conditions.
If you want to capture the log output to a file, just redirect it:
::
borg create repo::archive myfiles 2>> logfile
Custom logging configurations can be implemented via BORG_LOGGING_CONF.
The log level of the builtin logging configuration defaults to WARNING.
This is because we want Borg to be mostly silent and only output
@ -238,7 +252,7 @@ Please note:
(e.g. mode 600, root:root).
.. _INI: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/logging.config.html#configuration-file-format
.. _INI: https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.config.html#configuration-file-format
.. _file-systems: