Greetings Old wise ones,

I am trying to write a script to save a copy of a particular EventLog(Application, System or Security) and if the save subroutine is called again and a saved file exists, then it should add the new events to the existing log.

I am a beginner and am having a real tough time with the documentation trying to figure out how to write a new event to the saved log, in the way it was written by the initial backup method call.

Please Help!!

This is what I have for save,

sub Save
{
    our $DirName = 'WinLog';
    &DirCreator($DirName);
    foreach (@arr)
    {
        my $Log_obj = Win32::EventLog->new("$_","");
        $FileName = "$_\.evtx";
        $Log_obj->Backup("\.\\".$DirName."\\"."$FileName");
        switch ($^E)
        {
            case /^$/   { print "Log Successfully saved.";}
            case /^Cannot\ create\ a\ file\ when\ that\ file\ already\
+ exists$/ 
            (
                <This is where Im stuck!!!>
            )
            else         { print "Error : $^E"};
        }
        close ("$Log_obj");
    }
}

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In reply to Win32::EventLog->Backup(), appending contents of new log to a saved one. by dannyd

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