Hi Eric
I had the same problem and find your post without solution so I'm here to share my solution.
Changed the file /etc/logrotate.d/openvpn
From:
rotate 7
To:
rotate 180
In the place of 180 you put many days you want to keep your openvpn log.
The logs are in /var/log/archives/openvpn.
I make this change yesterday then is still in tests but I notice the add of one more file in /var/log/archives/openvpn since yesterday (7 to

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Rossano Fenner