Topic awaiting preservation: apache access logs (Page 1 of 1)

I want to write a script that will back-up the access.log file when it get's over a certain length, and then start with a fresh one. I was wondering if it's possible to do this without stopping the server, because today I tried to do it by hand and it was saying that the file was in use. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Why do you want to re-invent the wheel? Use logrotate to do that...

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i backup mine from time to time just by selecting the file and pressing ctrl+c and ctrl+v.