Good Day guys.. is it possible to change the location of the images made by zoneminder to different path? I want the zoneminder to save the images to different partition. Is it posible? If yes.. how would I do that.?
Thanks for the help
Events and Images Save in Different Location.. Possible?
Re: Events and Images Save in Different Location.. Possible?
if you haven't found the solution yet, you have to,
stop ZM
copy the events dir to the location you want and then add or replace a symlink
to that location. it really depends on what distro you used and how ZM
was installed. some have symlinks and some installs use a real events folder.
you may need to rename or delete the original events folder
i usually rename them in case i mess up.
the best way to find a how to is search for add hard drive for event storage
stop ZM
copy the events dir to the location you want and then add or replace a symlink
to that location. it really depends on what distro you used and how ZM
was installed. some have symlinks and some installs use a real events folder.
you may need to rename or delete the original events folder
i usually rename them in case i mess up.
the best way to find a how to is search for add hard drive for event storage
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Re: Events and Images Save in Different Location.. Possible?
Reality check (just in case) please ...river100 wrote:if you haven't found the solution yet, you have to,
stop ZM
copy the events dir to the location you want and then add or replace a symlink
to that location. it really depends on what distro you used and how ZM
was installed. some have symlinks and some installs use a real events folder.
you may need to rename or delete the original events folder
i usually rename them in case i mess up.
the best way to find a how to is search for add hard drive for event storage
Is it really that simple?
stop zm, copy /var/cache/zoneminder somewhere you like, ln -s /var/cache/zoneminder {favourite place}
[Your pardon, just, having been bitten by supposedly simple things in the past ... thought I would check.]
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Edit:
OK, thanks to another post, got to http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... Hard_Drive
wiki updated so that storage location takes you somewhere useful, like to the orphan article above.
Summary: ln's will get schmucked at upgrade, use fstab / mount points instead. (Per article above.)
Kubuntu 12.04LTS, zm 1.25, i7-2600K