N00b question - archiving

spyder · Post by **spyder** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:16 pm

Greetings,

We have zoneminder up and running (1.22.3) but have a question regarding archive. How do we set whether it uses zip or tar? Currently when I archive events it appears to run but I don't see any drop in diskspace used. I don't see any errors in the logs and the module gzip64 is installed. Oh, Suse 10.1 x86-64

TIA

spyder

Post by **cordel** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:25 pm

Archive does not compress the files. Only marks them as archived in the database so filters like purgewhenfull do not delete them if the filter is setup to pay attention to the archive flag.
The only time compression is used is for export of events, events attached to email, or ftp transfers.

spyder · Post by **spyder** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:59 pm

ahhhh, ok. Didn't expect to see much savings but any is better than none.