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Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 07:54:16 -0500
From: Barry Martin <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Motion-user] (no subject)
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Hi Denis!
> How to configure delete files older than 10 days? or delete older video if
> disk full or not space left?
> How do I set the archive size and its age? I need to keep an archive for 30
> days or the size is no more than 2000GB.
> How to configure folders to be created in calendar format?
I use this script to automatically delete Motion files older than 35
days -- alter the number for your requested 10 days:
In cron:
# Remove Motion video files older that 35 days from the NAS
35 0 * * * /bin/sh /home/pi/Scripts/FileDelete.sh
(The '35' here means 35 minutes past midnight -- time selected so as not
to interfere with other jobs going on.)
cat Scripts/FileDelete.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Delete older backup files from NAS:
# Motion: /Drive_E/Motion/221
# Create date variables
DATE35=$(date +"%m-%d" --date="35 day ago")
# Delete files older than 35 days
echo "Moving to the NAS...."
sudo rm -rf /mnt/NAS_Motion/$DATE35
Probably not elegant but gets the job done.? I tend to heavily comment
my files to remind me of what I did later, plus I am not trained.? The
mounts connect to specific subdirectories on the NAS: the '221' up there
is where the data from the Motion Raspberry Pi using the IP ending in
.221 stores its data.
Calendar format is in motion.conf:
movie_filename %m-%d/%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S
This will create the directory 04-06? (April 6th - U.S. format) and then
within the directory file number (%v), year, month, etc.
Barry
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