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N00b question - archiving

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:16 pm
by spyder
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

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:25 pm
by cordel
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.

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:59 pm
by spyder
ahhhh, ok. Didn't expect to see much savings but any is better than none.