blakeblackshear
Allow clip deletion/rotation to occur at specified time each day
Can we please have the option to delete old clips once a day at a set time? Deletion of old clips every minute is keeping drives spun up in unraid
For reference -https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/issues/2343
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Is this still on the radar? I can see my drive where the old frigate clips are stored beïng turn on allot of the times because of deleting the clips. Would like to have an option to only run this once a day.
Also, not at a specific time each day, but using the current version the recordings cleanup can be limited to once per day:
# Optional: Record configuration
# NOTE: Can be overridden at the camera level
record:
# Optional: Number of minutes to wait between cleanup runs (default: 60)
# This can be used to reduce the frequency of deleting recording segments from disk if you want to minimize i/o
expire_interval: 2480
I will note here, I was changing around some of my camera recording modes, and setting the expire_interval at the individual camera level doesnt seem to work. I have 5 cameras all set individually to the same expire interval at 1440 minutes (once per day) but i could see my disks spin up every hour. Changing back to a global setting appears to have rectified, but will monitor over the next few hours to confirm.
I noticed this has gone stale and been revived a few times it seems to be a few years old is this something we can expect? its keeping disks spinning and wasting alot of electricity
If you want to reduce your disk spin up you can simply reduce the recording cleanup interval. I have mine set to 24 hours for this very reason. No disks spinning up issues at all.
that would be great how can you do this is there a variable for it?
i think thats exactly what i am looking for
thanks. this only applies to recordings and not snapshots/clips correct?
thank you so much Nick any ideas on how long to have the setting for snapshots and clips
Not specifically. I'd still recommend just leaving your /clips (which is just images) on the SSD. Because even if you changed the retention interval you'll still spin up the disks any time one of the images is viewed in the WebUI which could happen for various screens.
@NickM-27 I beleive i see what has happened and why I did not notice the 5 minute intervals before I have reconstructed a few times until getting to here I believe I never had more than 30 days (my retention period) previously now that there is more than 30 days it is deleting every 5 minutes
I have since created a separate folder on my SSD pool and map /clips to it for now, until there is a fix/change
this is working and disks no longer spin up
what is the retention period of clips? is it the same as the recordings
i seem to have older ones (more than 30 days) that are not deleting
clips is simply a collection of different images. Snapshots have a retention period of their own in the config. Thumbnails are whichever is longer, review items or snapshots, and review items are mapped to recordings.
@NickM-27 I would like first of all to thank you for your very quick replies Thank you so much
just to remove any confusion are you saying there IS a separate config for clips (thumbs/review/preview etc..) or they are tied to the related recording type (record/event/alert)
from above, it seems like they are separate but snapshot is separate
each folder in clips is tied to a different retention depending on what feature it relates to
is there anything other than (retain/detections/alerts) have i missed setting something?