Visual Studio: Archive the contents of a text file once a month

Question

Working with Visual Studio 2013 ASP .NET MVC 5, I have this .txt file in which I log the exceptions that are caught in my web application (using NLog). Every month, I want to archive that file into a different folder in my project. How can I do this? Thanks

Answer 1

I think this could do

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      autoReload="true" internalLogFile="c:/logs/nlog_ex.txt" internalLogLevel="Debug">

  <!-- 
  See http://nlog-project.org/wiki/Configuration_file 
  for information on customizing logging rules and outputs.
   -->
  <targets>
    <target xsi:type="File"
            name="exceptions"
            encoding="utf-8"
            lineEnding="Default"
            layout="${longdate} - ${message}"
            archiveFileName="c:/logs/${date:format=yyyy-MM}/exceptions.txt"
            archiveNumbering="Sequence"
            archiveEvery="Month"
            fileName="c:/logs/exceptions.txt"
            deleteOldFileOnStartup="false"
            enableFileDelete="true"
            createDirs="true"
            concurrentWrites="true"
            autoFlush="true"
            keepFileOpen="false"
    />
  </targets>

  <rules>
    <!-- add your logging rules here -->
    <logger name="*" minlevel="Info" writeTo="exceptions" />
  </rules>
</nlog>

I used this domcumentation.