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davesumm
Oct 19, 2017Luminary
automatically delete video files script
G'day, all I've just bought a few (Hikvision) IP cameras and was wondering if there was a nice way of automating the NAS to delete files of a certain age in order to free up space and allow conti...
mdgm-ntgr
Oct 20, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Using SSH (we don't support using that) scheduling a script to do this would be pretty straightforward if you know what you're doing.
- davesummOct 20, 2017Luminary
Can you pretend I don't know what I'm doing? In fact, don't pretend ;)
- SandsharkOct 20, 2017Sensei
Rather than an NVR, you may also want to look into other options. I's suggest the products that run on the NAS itself, but with a 100 series NAS, that's probably pressing your luck for 24/7 recording of 3 cameras unless it's a slow frame rate and/or low resolution. I personally use Blue Iris and have the NAS as the backup device. The software takes care of moving files to backup and cleaning up the backup. I run it on an old CORE2 machine and it takes care of 6 cameras just fine (though only one is 1080P).
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