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Dear All,

I just start to work with ZoneMinder. Very nice software, good work!

I'm just puzzled how to automatically export recorded footages. I know that I can do that via filters, but how to do it in a scheduled manner. cron? But what would be the exact command to export all recordings as mpg after one week?

Furthermore, only 'events' will be exported. So a week recording is split into several videos. Is there any way to avoid this spliting behaviour?

Your help is much appreciated.
Thank you,
Ralf

ralf.butler wrote:Dear All,

I just start to work with ZoneMinder. Very nice software, good work!

I'm just puzzled how to automatically export recorded footages. I know that I can do that via filters, but how to do it in a scheduled manner. cron? But what would be the exact command to export all recordings as mpg after one week?

Furthermore, only 'events' will be exported. So a week recording is split into several videos. Is there any way to avoid this spliting behaviour?

Your help is much appreciated.
Thank you,
Ralf

You can export over FTP using the filters. For anything more specific you would need to create a script to run exactly how you want it to work. I know that several users have done so in the past and I think they made their scripts available in the Contributons section of the forum so you can take a look.

Combining events would need another script to do so. The events are exported exactly as they are stored so that the same order is in place so if you have to go back to the sever to pull up the event it's easy to find and visa-versa. Again I think I have seen someone put together a script to do something simular that you might be able to tweak to your needs.