You will need the persist file too. (`--persist-file` or `-R`). Afaik, that's all what you need besides the disk queue file. Br, Antal ________________________________ From: syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu> on behalf of Ronald Fenner <rfenner@gamecircus.com> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 20:20 To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu> Subject: [syslog-ng] Disk Buffering CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not follow guidance, click links, or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I'm going to enable disk buffer but I'd like to place the files on an EBS volume that persists when a server is shutdown. The idea being we'd have a recovery server that would stream out and items left in the buffer. Besides the buffer itself what other files should be on there so that a different instance with the same config file can load the buffer and send the rest of it. Ronald Fenner Network Architect Game Circus LLC. rfenner@gamecircus.com<mailto:rfenner@gamecircus.com>