save storage location for each camera

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djsb
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Joined: Mon Apr 05, 2004 2:50 am

save storage location for each camera

Post by djsb »

I had in mind a change(not a feature), where we could define the storage point for each camera. I realized that one of the heavy loads in ZM is the disk recording of a huge amount of cameras with a large framerate.
In systems with no hardware RAID saving all to the same disk or to a software raid raises the system load.
If we could be able to direct a camera to a specific mount point (to diferent disks) would reduce this load.

I could use symlinks to trick ZM, but then i cannot use the filter to autoclean events, as it only looks to the root mount point of events.

Thanks.
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Ruler
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Joined: Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:02 pm
Location: Bay City, MI

Post by Ruler »

You can set up a software RAID-0 with multiple mount points (on different disks or the same drive) and accomplish the increase in speed you're looking for. I have 4, 250 gig drives RAIDed together and it has no problem keeping up with 16 simultaneous cameras.
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