I can't seem to find where I can split cameras up to record to a particular drive. It just appears a global setting in "Clips and Archiving" tab... that's whats tripping me up right now.
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I can't seem to find where I can split cameras up to record to a particular drive. It just appears a global setting in "Clips and Archiving" tab... that's whats tripping me up right now.
@bradner - you go into the BI setting for each individual camera to direct the recording to the folder you setup in the global setup.
ahh, found it.. I'm good at buying and mounting cameras but the other stuff gets me sometimes. Thanks!!
Ok so I put all my front yard cams on one drive and the back yard cams on the other and rebuilt the database - plus deleted a bunch of the stored files older than 2 weeks on both drives before rebuilding.
@bradner - you won't have to rebuild for this LOL - but looking at the number of cameras you have, I would probably try to balance it more than front or back. Try to balance it such that if one drive fails, you are not completely naked LOL on the other side of the house. I have several cameras from all sides of the house going to 3 different drives so that if one goes out, I at least have an overview on the other drive. Any cams that you have that are redundant cover areas or significant overlap, I would recommend splitting them over the drives.
Sorry, I "repaired" the DB - not rebuilt. Good idea about the cams -- I'll split them up like you said, great idea. It's hard keeping track that's why I thought Front and back would be easy to remember as I was going through them all....
looney2ns
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Properly set up, there is no reason for it to be hard to keep track of. BI does it for you. Also look at setting up camera groups.