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Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:46 pm**

Good Day All.

Can someone please advice me to what would be the best way to Record outside of the zoneminder default folder?

My current setup records eveything to "/var/cache/zoneminder/events"

I have just fitted a new HDD, and it is mounted to "/media/CCTV"

So I no longer what to record to "/var/cache/zoneminder/events" but instead record it to "/media/CCTV".

What is the best way to do this?

Thanks for your time.

Best Regards.

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:10 pm**

Just create a symlink to your new directory.

Backup you original event folder

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$ mv /usr/share/zoneminder/events /usr/share/zoneminder/eventsbackup

Create the symlink

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$ ln -s /media/CCTV /usr/share/zoneminder/events

Check the directory

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ls -hal /usr/share/zoneminder/

events should point to /media/CCTV

One thing, just be careful on not starting zoneminder with your harddrive unmounted, because zm run a consitensy check every few minutes, and if your directory is not present, zmaudit.pl won't find the files and it'll delete the events from the database.

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:44 pm**

I think

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ls -n

probably should be

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ln -s

Posted: **Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:30 pm**

Hahaha right, damn dyslexia.

Corrected.

Posted: **Sat Jun 11, 2011 12:03 pm**

Thanks for your replies.

I am now trying to hardlink zoneminder to my spare drive.

Here is what I have put in my "/etc/fstab"

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/dev/sdb1		/media/CCTV			ext4	defaults	0	2
/media/CCTV/images	/var/cache/zoneminder/images	none	defaults,bind	0	2
/media/CCTV/events	/var/cache/zoneminder/events	none	defaults,bind	0	2
/media/CCTV/temp	/var/cache/zoneminder/temp	none	defaults,bind	0	2

Now when I load the ZoneMinder front page is shows "Disk: -1%" and will not record to disk.

I guess I have missed something, can you please advice.

Posted: **Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:11 am**

Read http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... Hard_Drive

Symlinks are not detected by the debian installer packages, so will be removed and recreated. zmaudit will then not be able to find the files and will kill all the events in your database.

If using debian or ubuntu, do not use symlinks for this!

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