First off, I'm not sure if this should go to Server Fault or Database Administrators. It could be a Windows Server 2008R2 problem. But I am asking here first in the chance that someone else running MySQL on Windows might have had the same problem.

We are using MySQL Community Version 5.5.34 with the general log turned on. On Windows, there was no built-in log rotation script, so I wrote one, following the documentation on the MySQL website. The information there says to rename the log file, then flush. This is supposedly because it's quicker (almost instant) to rename the file than it is to make a copy of it in Windows. Then presumably the log can be flushed right afterward (instead of waiting some arbitrary length of time for the log file to be copied). The script renames the log to (date-time-stamp).log, then flushes the log using mysqladmin. It then compresses the log as a zip file and moves it to an archive folder.

Anyway, I created a Windows Scheduled Task to run the script. Everything works when I run the script either directly or through the Scheduled Task manager. But when I leave it to run on its schedule, the log is not rotated properly. It looks like the log is flushed, because I see the new log. But the renamed file is not there. Our log does get fairly large, the first day it got to about 400 MB. When I ran tests on the script, the log was smaller (10 MB, etc). I'm wondering if having a large quickly updating log might be too much for Windows/MySQL to handle. Is there any other recommended way to rotate logs in Windows?

I will try running the rotation script without the zip compression and moving the file to the archive folder to see if that affects anything. But like I said, everything works when I test the script both from the command line or through the Scheduled Task Manager (so presumably permissions and working directory and stuff like that should be ok). The only difference I can think of is the size of the log file when the script is run.

Any ideas?