BI not recording several days?

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farnk

Getting the hang of it
Dec 31, 2018
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Hi,
I have the record setting to continous. But on my HD I only see 2-3 days worth of videos. I thought it might be due to the HD being full but the HD (internal) is 50% full. I have 1TB internal and 4TB external. The external HD is not even close to being full.

thanks,
Frank
 
farnk said:
Hi,
I have the record setting to continous. But on my HD I only see 2-3 days worth of videos. I thought it might be due to the HD being full but the HD (internal) is 50% full. I have 1TB internal and 4TB external. The external HD is not even close to being full.

thanks,
Frank
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You need to set your storage limits in clips in archiving
 
farnk said:
Thanks for the quick response. It is currently set to 7 days and 50GB.
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Uncheck the day limit that's useless. 50 GB is very little storage that would explain the problem. don't use the store phone or simply record everything to new and set the new folder to about 95% of the free space
 
Check to see if there are any pending windows updates/reboot. I had this affect one of my DVR's.
 
I beg to differ. I had a Win 10 pro PC that was pending restart from windows updates that had stopped storing clips. Once I restarted, everything was fine and has been since. I have since set the NIC to "Metered" to prevent updates.
 
BHAUS said:
I beg to differ. I had a Win 10 pro PC that was pending restart from windows updates that had stopped storing clips. Once I restarted, everything was fine and has been since. I have since set the NIC to "Metered" to prevent updates.
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One issue was not related to the other. It was a coincidence.
 
fenderman said:
Uncheck the day limit that's useless. 50 GB is very little storage that would explain the problem. don't use the store phone or simply record everything to new and set the new folder to about 95% of the free space
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Hi Fenderman, not sure I follow what you are saying. As such, I have attached a screen shot of my current settings. I don't see "day limit"? Where is the "store phone" or "simply record everything to new"?
 

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@fenderman is referring to the option Limit clip age which you have disabled.

How many drives do you have.

In my BI PC I have 1 SSD and 2 HDDs. I have my dB and Alerts on the C: drive (SSD) and then set the clips for half the cameras to save to D: and the other half to the E: drive. I don’t use the Limit clip age option and then have the Delete option enabled. I didn’t see the point of moving clips to Stored as all that would do is hammer the CPU and HDD when it comes time to move the clips.

Also as @fenderman has pointed out 50Gb is nothing in storage terms so post what drives you have and I’m sure people will be able to advise.
 
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@fenderman is referring to the option Limit clip age which you have disabled.

How many drives do you have.

In my BI PC I have 1 SSD and 2 HDDs. I have my dB and Alerts on the C: drive (SSD) and then set the clips for half the cameras to save to D: and the other half to the E: drive. I don’t use the Limit clip age option and then have the Delete option enabled. I didn’t see the point of moving clips to Stored as all that would do is hammer the CPU and HDD when it comes time to move the clips.

Also as @fenderman has pointed out 50Gb is nothing in storage terms so post what drives you have and I’m sure people will be able to advise.
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Hi @IAmATeaf , thanks for the reply. I have 2 drives. Yes, I see the 50GB. I have set this to 200GB. Is this enough? My C drive is 1TB and my D drive is 4 TB. Just to clarify, uncheck means "limit clip age is disabled" which means clipping of age will not happen.
 
farnk said:
Hi @IAmATeaf , thanks for the reply. I have 2 drives. Yes, I see the 50GB. I have set this to 200GB. Is this enough? My C drive is 1TB and my D drive is 4 TB. Just to clarify, uncheck means "limit clip age is disabled" which means clipping of age will not happen.
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200 is 4x50. Still very little. "Enough" is a both relative and subjective. Its like asking is 200 gallons of gas enough? You have to set he limits in the stored folder as well.
 
Although it would be nice to make use of the 1tb drive I personally think you’d be better off just using New as the location to save all your clips. So set all your cams to save clips to New and as @fenderman has said set the size to around 90-95% of the disk size, don’t limit by age and select the option to Delete which will delete older clips as space becomes tight.
 
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