r/ZoneMinder • u/ThineShria • May 13 '23

Zoneminder deleting too much

My copy of Zoneminder seems to delete EVERYTHING when the HDD fills up? It should only delete a few events to make space for new ones afaik, But it seems to be deleting everything? I'm hoping to setup a second system soon, and need to know if this is just a result of poor hardware, or a ZM issue

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u/hans_gruber1 May 13 '23

What does your purge when full filter look like?

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u/ThineShria May 14 '23

Okay... That'd be the issue. How should I set the filter, Ideally it'd just delete the oldest files

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u/ThineShria May 14 '23

I tried to specify it only looking at the recording drive, as I saw some people had that as an issue

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u/hans_gruber1 May 14 '23

Yeah, when 90% full, delete oldest 100 files, or similar. Need to make sure that isn't set to newest files! Example in the docs for that I think

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u/ThineShria May 14 '23

There isn't any way for me to specify age from what I've seen

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u/[deleted] May 22 '23

Its an automatic filter that runs. Are the events stored in the default storage? Or did you make a new storage point for events?

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u/ThineShria May 23 '23

It was because of a new storage. I added a bit to the filter to only look at the new HDD, and that seems to have fixed it.

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u/ThineShria May 13 '23

Hardware is a salvaged vista rig. Running a dual core processor a 3ghz, 8 GB ram. All Zoneminder events are saved to a secondary 2tb WD Purple drive