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is the upgrade a seamless upgrade from 1.22.3 to 1.23.2, or do new packages have to be installed and so on.

How do i get to use_deep_storage configuration under options?

Not on the files in the events folder. For instance..one of the folders is named "4105" and then it will contain all of the jpeg files for that event id. Im sure it goes by event id because it will be (camera name-id number). Its impossible to find events when they are numbered liek this

What i meant by that post was...when the events output to the events folder...i see them as numbers and i dont see the time or date in there. Is tehre a way i can seee the date and time under the events folder or do i have to rename all of the folders..

How do i make it so that my VNC Server that is installed on this box will load on startup. Periodically i restart the box for maintenance and i dont like having to restart VNC server everytime I want to remote into the machine. Also, everytime i restart the machine i have to renable permissions to ...

I have zoneminder installed on Ubuntu 8.04. I have 4 BNC cameras hooked up to a capture card on a desktop. Everything runs fine, and the events for zoneminder output to /usr/share/zoneminder/events. However, The directories are named with the numbers of the cameras i.e. 5, 6, 7, 8. With that said ...

Approximately how much space is zoneminder operating system supposed to take up without any events in the database or archives. I have all the events cleared by using fast delete and all the trash emptied and i still have 24% of the disk space used up..i cant see how this is possible.

It is a 40 gig HDD

I got most of the space off down to 25%, most of my allocated space was from events which are now clear. However, i am wondering if theres another directory to delete from or if this space is being used by a database. Where are the archives stored, possibly the space is being used there..i know that ...

How do you turn fast delete on and off

Can i run diskhousekeeping or is that something that is done on a scheduled basis

When you execute Purge when full...where do those files go on the zm box. Are those files compressed when archived. Because in other words, i would be archiving these because I am running out of space on the drive. I am guessing if i want to get them totally off the machine i would have to set up ...

I have a question on clearing the events out to clear space on my hard drive. I know the events are stored in the zoneminder directory. However, when i clear that folder out, the disk usage still shows 25%. Where are all the events stored and how can i clear the disk usage and also have the event ...

I have a question about zoneminder modetect mode. I know that modetect records motion and still events and you can auto generate section lengths to populate events. However, i want to only record motion, but when i do, the events generates, and a 2nd event will only generate if i toggle the source ...

I have zoneminder setup on a ubuntu 8.04 platform. I want to know how to set it up to where i get sequential events. In other words, when i have it on modetect, I will have one event recording, and once i stop the event then i will be able to view it. How do i get one event to record, and then once ...