Patrick Varley added a comment - 12/Jul/19 2:20 AM I could not reproduce this issue.

Toby Wilds added a comment - 12/Jul/19 5:27 AM I might not have explained this in enough detail, my bad.  Steps to reproduce: Create a backup backup config and do a backup: $ /opt/couchbase/bin/cbbackupmgr config --archive /tmp/entbackup --repo backup $ /opt/couchbase/bin//cbbackupmgr backup --archive /tmp/entbackup --repo backup --cluster http://10.112.191.101:8091 --username Administrator --password password --no-progress-bar Run collect-logs on the backup archive: $ /opt/couchbase/bin/cbbackupmgr collect-logs -a /tmp/entbackup Observation   In the logs directory, we see both backup-0.log, alongside the zipped logs archive: $ ls /tmp/entbackup/logs/ backup-0.log cbbackupmgr-collectinfo-entbackup-2019-07-12T120351.zip If we extract the logs archive, we find a backup-0.log file within that is identical to the backup-0.log we observed at the top level, alongside the backup archive: $ cd /tmp/entbackup/logs/ $ unzip cbbackupmgr-collectinfo-entbackup-2019-07-12T115813.zip $ diff backup-0.log cbbackupmgr-collectinfo-entbackup-2019-07-12T120351/logs/backup-0.log If this is intended then by all means mark this closed. However, my understanding was the log collection was intended to give additional information by extracting the logs with relevant additional metadata and also save space by cleaning up rotating log files and compressing them into a zip file.

Carlos Gonzalez Betancort (Inactive) added a comment - 12/Jul/19 5:41 AM So this seems to be a misunderstanding on what collect-logs is supposed to do. A normal archive looks as follows: ├── logs │ └── backup-0.log └── backup_repository ├── 2019-07-11T15_24_01.158858+01_00 /* ect */ the cbbackupmgr collect-logs command will collect the backup logs located in the log directory as well as some other information to help debbuging and create a zip archive, if no output directory is provided this archive is stored on the logs/ directory by default. But it can be saved to any arbitrary output directory. Collect logs does and should not delete the original logs as those should stay there. I'll close this issue as this is the correct behaviour.