seenimurugan shanmugam created LOGBACK-1338: ----------------------------------------------- Summary: SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy do not delete the old files Key: LOGBACK-1338 URL: https://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-1338 Project: logback Issue Type: Bug Components: logback-core Affects Versions: 1.1.10 Reporter: seenimurugan shanmugam Assignee: Logback dev list I configured the  archive file structure as specified by the below configuration <appender name="SCHEDULER" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender"> <File>$\{LOG_HOME}/scheduler.log</File> <encoder> <pattern>%d %p [%t] [%X\{serviceName}] [%X\{username}] %X\{someOtherName} %logger\{10} - %m%n</pattern> </encoder> <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy"> <fileNamePattern>$\{LOG_HOME}/archive/%d\{yyyy/MM/dd}/scheduler.%i.log.gz</fileNamePattern> <maxHistory>5</maxHistory> <totalSizeCap>2GB</totalSizeCap> <maxFileSize>50MB</maxFileSize> </rollingPolicy> </appender>   The date and time is not attached to the file name but folder is created for each day. This does not delete the old files above 5 days old.  -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.3.1#73012)