WTH - Why can't Home Assistant Keep Last Log?

Month of "What the heck?!"
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Why can’t we have a setting for the logger to save the previous’s boot homeassistant.log? I believe home assistant clears this log every core restart or crash.

Someone posted a procedure to get access the the actual journald system, How to get to your log after restart/restore , but it should not be so complicated.

propose something like:

logger:
  keep_previous_logs : X

where X is the number of logs you want to keep. It can default to 0 to preserve old behavior.

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Home assistant already does this by default, enabled on all installation methods. You can also adjust this through run arguments if you run Docker or Core installation methods.

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It keeps the previous one by default, home-assistant.log.1

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oops. Sorry, now I see it. I had a file before, but it was empty. This will be very helpful.