Blue Iris ran my hard disk out of space

[Rockford622]

Been running the latest version solid for the last few weeks and woke up to lots of disk space alerts. Blue Iris PC is setup like the following:

1) BI_Storage E: Drive 2 TB internal Disk
2) BI_Storage2 D: Drive 6 TB internal Disk

Both disks are setup to leave about 10% space available on disk until they archive to my NAS. Both drive archive to the same NAS, BTW. Here is a small snapshot of the log:

0 10/29/2020 10:52:02 PM.252 BI_Storage Move: 8 files 1.00G [1.56T/1.56T, 259.0G free]
0 10/29/2020 10:52:02 PM.254 BI_Storage2 Move: 1 files 0.97G [5.56T/5.56T, 3.00G free]
0 10/29/2020 10:52:02 PM.573 NAS_Storage Delete: 5 files 1.47G [848/768 hrs, 13.57T/14.64T, 7.93T free] 2 locked
0 10/29/2020 10:52:02 PM.577 Alerts Delete: nothing to do [109.8M/1.00G, 7.94T free]

0 10/29/2020 10:57:57 PM.199 BI_Storage Move: 3 files 1.95G [1.56T/1.56T, 258.8G free]
0 10/29/2020 10:57:57 PM.201 BI_Storage2 Move: 2 files 1.95G [5.56T/5.56T, 2.71G free]
0 10/29/2020 10:57:57 PM.610 NAS_Storage Delete: 6 files 2.45G [848/768 hrs, 13.57T/14.64T, 7.93T free] 2 locked
0 10/29/2020 10:57:57 PM.613 Alerts Delete: nothing to do [109.8M/1.00G, 7.93T free]

0 10/29/2020 11:04:11 PM.247 BI_Storage Move: 6 files 523.4M [1.56T/1.56T, 259.5G free]
0 10/29/2020 11:04:11 PM.248 BI_Storage2 Move: 1 files 0.97G [5.56T/5.56T, 2.34G free]
0 10/29/2020 11:04:11 PM.761 NAS_Storage Delete: 8 files 2.94G [849/768 hrs, 13.57T/14.64T, 7.93T free] 2 locked
0 10/29/2020 11:04:11 PM.765 Alerts Delete: nothing to do [109.8M/1.00G, 7.94T free]

0 10/29/2020 11:09:28 PM.253 BI_Storage Move: 4 files 0.98G [1.56T/1.56T, 258.9G free]
0 10/29/2020 11:09:28 PM.254 BI_Storage2 Move: 1 files 0.97G [5.56T/5.56T, 1.20G free]
0 10/29/2020 11:09:28 PM.407 NAS_Storage Delete: 2 files 0.97G [849/768 hrs, 13.57T/14.64T, 7.94T free] 2 locked
0 10/29/2020 11:09:28 PM.410 Alerts Delete: nothing to do [109.8M/1.00G, 7.94T free]

0 10/29/2020 11:15:08 PM.652 BI_Storage Move: 5 files 1.81G [1.56T/1.56T, 258.8G free]
0 10/29/2020 11:15:08 PM.655 BI_Storage2 Move: 1 files 0.97G [5.56T/5.56T, 975.9M free]
0 10/29/2020 11:15:09 PM.133 NAS_Storage Delete: 6 files 2.93G [849/768 hrs, 13.57T/14.64T, 7.93T free] 2 locked
0 10/29/2020 11:15:09 PM.136 Alerts Delete: nothing to do [109.8M/1.00G, 7.94T free]
2 10/29/2020 11:19:36 PM.415 Rear_North Clip: Disk not ready
2 10/29/2020 11:19:36 PM.417 Garage_Rear_Sth Clip: Disk full
2 10/29/2020 11:19:36 PM.428 Rear_South Clip: Disk not ready
2 10/29/2020 11:19:36 PM.453 Side_North Clip: Disk not ready
2 10/29/2020 11:19:36 PM.473 Side_South Clip: Disk not ready
2 10/29/2020 11:19:36 PM.477 Garage_Rear_Nth Clip: Disk not ready
2 10/29/2020 11:19:46 PM.390 Rear_North Clip: Disk full
2 10/29/2020 11:19:46 PM.403 Rear_South Clip: Disk full
2 10/29/2020 11:19:46 PM.445 Garage_Rear_Sth Clip: Disk full
2 10/29/2020 11:19:46 PM.452 Side_North Clip: Disk full
2 10/29/2020 11:19:46 PM.457 Side_South Clip: Disk full

You can see that most of the time, Blue Iris just moved 1 or 2 files from BI_Storage2 to my NAS and the disk space continues to run out until the disk is full. This apparently went on for a few days since BI_Storage2 is setup to leave around 400 to 500GB of free space. The BI_Storage location continued to work fine for some reason, even though both drives archive to the same location. I'm rebuilding the database now which will most likely fix the problem, but I don't understand why this happens in the first place?

 

[SouthernYankee]

you do not have the allocation set correctly.

Please provide a screen shots. full frame (use windows 10 snip & sketch tool)

1) Blue iris status (lighting bolt graph,upper left corner) clip storage tab
2) blue Iris status cameras tab
3) Blue iris settings clips and archiving tab , for the NEW folder, stored folder, alerts folder. (three screen shots)
4) on two of the camera properties the record tab. One each for bI_storage and Bi_storage2

 

[Rockford622]

Somehow my BI_Storage2 allocated space was set to 5600GB which is too much, you are right. Not sure why that was set that way, but I lowered it to 4950GB (6 TB drive) and now BI is archiving files from that disk.

 

[windguy]

@SouthernYankee - Thanks for taking the time to post and helping out. Your expertise is always appreciated on this forum