I guess it makes sense to do this here since you're doing a fair bit of other custom stuff, but my sysadmin training wants me to say we should use logrotate to handle log file aging and archival (after all, a DB dump is just a really, really, detailed log...) That would let us encode all the information about what we're doing with all our logs in one place, without having to write a lot of custom recipes for chef. 

Unless you think that the log situation needs addressing, though, I don't think that should hold this up.