delete all events/images

[freak]

I'd like to restart a system with no events or images saved on it. There is probably around 50000 events right now. Is there a procedure to follow?

[bbunge]

Well, you could create a filter to delete events down to -1 day then let it run. When it gets down to one day events left delete them manually. Or you could delete your cameras which deletes all associated events. Or you could set purge when full down to 5% and let it run. You could have some events left but lowering the % lower would get rid of them. Also set your cameras to monitor so you are not adding events. I'm sure there is another way...

[freak]

I was hoping to do something like "delete from events" and "rm -r /events".

[knight-of-ni]

The zmaudit deamon will find orphans and delete them for you.

That means that all you have to do is:

A) delete the events from your local hard drive
-- OR --
B) delete the records from the mysql Events table

All you have to do is one of these, in any manner you know how.
It might take a little bit if you have 50k records, but zoneminder will delete them all.

[freak]

Well I....

truncate table Logs
truncate table Frames
truncate table Events

...and deleted everything in /var/cache/zoneminder.

All looks good! I feel soooo clean now!!!