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+<configuration>
+
+    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+        <encoder>
+            <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5level %logger - %msg%n</pattern>
+        </encoder>
+    </appender>
+
+    <logger name="org.hibernate.validator.internal" level="WARN"/>
+    <logger name="org.glassfish.jersey.internal" level="ERROR"/>
+
+    <!-- disable / enable as you wish -->
+
+    <!--logger name="com.instaclustr.cassandra.backup.impl.backup.Backuper" level="INFO"/-->
+    <!--logger name="com.instaclustr.cassandra.backup.impl.restore.Restorer" level="INFO"/-->
+    <!--logger name="com.instaclustr.cassandra.backup" level="INFO"/-->
+    <!--logger name="com.instaclustr.cassandra.backup.aws" level="INFO"/-->
+    <!--logger name="com.instaclustr.cassandra.backup.azure" level="INFO"/-->
+    <!--logger name="com.instaclustr.cassandra.backup.gcp" level="INFO"/-->
+    <!--logger name="com.instaclustr.cassandra.backup.local" level="INFO"/-->
+
+    <root level="info">
+        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
+    </root>
+</configuration>
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