Help with Archiving.

[bob.m]

I'm confused on the BI Clips and Archiving.

I have the following:

New:
c:\New -- where the current clips go, allocated to 300G
Move to Folder - Stored.

Stored:
d:\Stored - allocated to 2000G
Move to folder Aux 2

At this point I would like, when Stored reaches the limit it will go and convert to a mp4 and store to my NAS.

The issue is that the Move to folder let's you pick a name (say Aux 2) and then ALSO Queue for convert/export and also queue for backup.

So would BI be doing:

1: copy to Aux 2 first
2: then convert to mp4
3: then if queue for backup is enabled copy the mp4 to the NAS ( z:\foo in this case).

Or is the folder ignored when a queue is selected?

thx

 

[fenderman]

I'm confused on the BI Clips and Archiving.

I have the following:

New:
c:\New -- where the current clips go, allocated to 300G
Move to Folder - Stored.

Stored:
d:\Stored - allocated to 2000G
Move to folder Aux 2

At this point I would like, when Stored reaches the limit it will go and convert to a mp4 and store to my NAS.

The issue is that the Move to folder let's you pick a name (say Aux 2) and then ALSO Queue for convert/export and also queue for backup.

So would BI be doing:

1: copy to Aux 2 first
2: then convert to mp4
3: then if queue for backup is enabled copy the mp4 to the NAS ( z:\foo in this case).

Or is the folder ignored when a queue is selected?

thx

test and see....note there is no reason to waste processing power to convert the files to mp4..if you ever need them later you can simply use blue iris to view them..

 

[bob.m]

Thx for the reply. I have been testing and it's not obvious what's going on, the logs say:

0 9/7/2017 4:22:57 PM New Move: nothing to do [58/744 hrs, 299.5G/300.0G, 106.8G free]
0 9/7/2017 4:22:57 PM Stored Move: nothing to do [4296/2160 hrs, 1.69T/1.95T, 2.11T free]
0 9/7/2017 4:22:57 PM Aux 2 Move: nothing to do [526/168 hrs, 497.3G/500.0G, 2.11T free]
0 9/7/2017 4:22:57 PM Aux 1 Delete: nothing to do [6454/2160 hrs, 204.7M/512.0G, 2.11T free]

so I have to wait for a bit or drop the sizes.

The reason to convert is that I want to be able to go and do stuff with the output (machine learning).

 

[Mike.in.Minnesota]

Not to criticize. Only a suggestion...

Having the BI recording on a dedicated drive (not partitioned with the C: partition), will give better results. Recording on the C: system drive will compete with system i/o - basically everything! And drives like the WD Purple, or, Seagate SkyHawk, will give excellent response.