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update docs w/ backup format info

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Nate Finch
2016-11-04 09:48:45 -04:00
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@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ var _ io.WriteCloser = (*Logger)(nil)
// original name. Thus, the filename you give Logger is always the "current" log
// file.
//
// Backups use the log file name given to Logger, in the form
// `name-timestamp.ext` where name is the filename without the extension,
// timestamp is the time at which the log was rotated formatted with the
// time.Time format of `2006-01-02T15-04-05.000` and the extension is the
// original extension. For example, if your Logger.Filename is
// `/var/log/foo/server.log`, a backup created at 6:30pm on Nov 11 2016 would
// use the filename `/var/log/foo/server-2016-11-04T18-30-00.000.log`
//
// Cleaning Up Old Log Files
//
// Whenever a new logfile gets created, old log files may be deleted. The most