Copying sysdig sump files to remote storage

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#1,613 opened on Apr 7, 2020 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 2/5
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Documentation
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: gcp, shell
Domain: cli, cloud

Research direction

Start by reviewing the documented behavior of the sysdig -G, -W, and -w options and the timestamped shell command shown in the issue. Check whether the CLI documentation explains retaining rotated dump files and sending them to GCP storage; done means documenting a workflow that preserves each dump without overwriting it.

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Hello All, Is there a way to generate sysdig dump files based on the timestamp ? I am trying to copy the dump files to gcp storage and not want to overwrite the files. Currently i am doing this (which generates dumps every 15 min and keeps 5 files).

sysdig -G 900 -W 5 -qw /opt/sysdig_dumps/sysdig-$(date +'%Y%m%d-%H%M%S').scap
This generates files like below and first file gets overwritten after 5th dump file is generated.
sysdig-20200406-212213.scap0
sysdig-20200406-212213.scap1
sysdig-20200406-212213.scap2
sysdig-20200406-212213.scap3
sysdig-20200406-212213.scap4

How do we keep these dump files without getting overwritten and sent to remote storage?

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