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I am working on a script that will basically tar or gzip or cpio any directories older that say 5 days, this can be written directly to tape, or modified to go to DVD if you are so inclined to edit the script to do so. Then it will run the zmaudit script to clean up the dbase.. just a project I am ...

jameswilson wrote:do a search for mysqlcheck

I run that command on zm database, seems all are ok.
But at the moment still with same objetive, record automatically with a script or similar to burn on dvd all archived events and purge the database.

Well, i would sugest and option, tab, or command to store all archived events on a dvd directly by cdrecord or simmilar software, all are not linux gurus and make these steps on zoneminder and mysql. So if you can make an tab, on zoneminder console for cd-dvd recording all archived events qould be ...

As a newbie, I would guess you have never used the generate video feature for an event. You mentioned DVD & video, sounds like you are thinking DVD to play in DVD player, I'm not sure. I recently made a DVD data disk from zm files that was about 4 GB & I don't think I had much more than 1 hr of ...